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| 3 | AristotlePagaltzis | 1 | 1,000 [KiloByte]s, but commonly refers to 1,024 [KibiByte]s which is actually called a MebiByte. Originally, the "kilo"/"mega"/etc prefixes were used for 2^(10*x) amounts in computer jargon, while they usually mean 10^(3*x). This was not a problem, since computer and non-computer jargon generally didn't overlap. When computers began pervading all aspects of life, some people deemed this duality confusing and proposed to introduce new "kibi"/"mebi"/etc prefixes for the base-2 factors and to use the "kilo"/"mega"/etc prefixes for traditional base-10 factors. However, this distinction has not been adopted in practice, so it's not always clear what exact capacity is meant by a particular mention of MegaByte. |
| 1 | AristotlePagaltzis | 2 | |
| 3 | In speech, it's often cut down to "meg". | ||
| 2 | JohnMcPherson | 4 | |
| 1 | AristotlePagaltzis | 5 | This is a very common unit. The majority of sets of data dealt with in contemporary computing range from somewhere between half a MegaByte to about 50. 400-600 [MegaByte]s is a common size for MultiMedia data, owing to the fact that that's roughly the capacity of [CD]s. |
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| 7 | See also KiloByte/KibiByte, MebiByte, GigaByte/GibiByte, TeraByte. |
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