1 Feb
2009
1 Feb
'09
11:17 p.m.
On Sunday 01 February 2009, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
actually it's not an even million.
a megabyte is 1024*1024 bytes
(1024 K), a mb is a million bytes, but an MB is 1,048,576 bytes
1K = 1024 bytes, not 1000 bytes.
You are wrong, at least if you follow the SI system of measurement. :)
My only complaint is that they decided that MB is 10^6 not 2^20 well
after common usage dictated that MB was 2^20 bytes.
Also, "mb" would technically be milli-bits, ie 10^-3 bits.
Pat
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