Recent Examples on the WebServers and workstations need a lot of computing power, making having as many cores as possible necessary—far more critical than a few extra megabytes of L3 cache.—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 24 July 2024 And with read speeds up to 800 megabytes per second, you won’t be stuck waiting for long periods when transferring files.—Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024 Given how much of modern life depends on megabytes and teraflops, the answer could be a key facet to living nobly in the AI age.—Arthur Holland Michel, The Atlantic, 5 July 2024 In rural areas, the average speed was little more than half that, at 128.6 megabytes per second.—Marie Hyland, Foreign Affairs, 23 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for megabyte
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Etymology
from the fact that 1,048,576 (220) is the power of 2 closest to one million
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