Recent Examples on the WebHumans 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 In 1995 Niklaus Wirth lamented that software had grown to megabytes in size.—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2024 The 68000 was a 16/32-bit chip and used a 24-bit address bus, giving it a maximum of 16 megabytes of memory.—Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2023 An average photo takes up five megabytes, according to Samsung.—Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024 But for the Portable, Apple stuck with a configuration very similar to the Mac Plus: a 16 MHz 68000 CPU and 1 megabyte of RAM.—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024 The movie opens long after humanity has vacated Earth, and all that’s left are two AIs: a buoy, named Me, created to catalog the ocean, and a satellite, named Iam (played by Steven Yeun), loaded with every last megabyte of recorded history.—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024 Its file bundle is about half a megabyte, adding to the data transfer load and using a high proportion of the browser’s resources for processing.—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2023
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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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