What is a Mebibyte

What is a Mebibyte?

Mebibyte (MiB) is a unit of measure with IEC binary prefix Mebi. The binary prefix Mebi means 2²⁰, that also means 1 Mebibyte is equal to 1,048,576 bytes. And MiB is the unit symbol of Mebibyte.

You can also say that there are 1048.576 kilobytes in a Mebibyte and there are 0.001048576 gigabytes in a Mebibyte.

1 Mebibyte = 2²⁰ bytes 

1 Mebibyte = 1,048,576 bytes

1 Mebibyte = 1048.576 KB

1 Mebibyte = 0.001048576 GB

What is the difference between a megabyte and a mebibyte?

Megabyte is a unit of digital information with the SI decimal prefix Mega. And its unit symbol is MB.

1 Megabyte is equal to 1,000,000 bytes. 

There are 1.048576 megabytes in a Mebibyte. Also you can write as, 1 Mebibyte is equal to (2²⁰/10⁶) megabytes.

On the other hand, there are 0.95367431640625 mebibytes in a Megabyte. And 1 Megabyte is equal to (10⁶/2²⁰) mebibytes.

Note that Mebi is the IEC binary prefix equal to 2²⁰. And Mega is the SI decimal prefix equal to 10⁶.