Recent Examples on the WebModern NVMe drives, which can reach speeds above 6,000 megabytes per second, areroughly 10 times the speed of comparable SATA solid state drives, which top out at 600 MB/s.—IEEE Spectrum, 18 May 2024 Their compressed take on Google’s Bert model was 15 times smaller — only 1.2 megabytes — and saw only a 4 percent reduction in quality.—David Pierce, The Verge, 5 May 2024 Each has a central region of 48 megabytes of cache memory.—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024 However, he was eliminated after incorrectly guessing the number of megabytes in a gigabyte.—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024 The argument by viewers was that gigabytes can be either 1000 or 1024 megabytes, meaning Pannullo wasn’t technically wrong.—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024 So 20 megabytes per second, times 60,000 hours, times 3,600 seconds per hour.—TIME, 13 Feb. 2024 Humans acquire language using only around 1.5 megabytes of data (less than a 1980s floppy disk).—Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 And the optical nerve is about 20 megabytes per second.—TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
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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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