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In these areas, a 2 megabyte file can take as long as 30 minutes to download.—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2013 Vampire Survivors weighs in at a puny 600 megabytes.—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025 Our human compressors condensed the original images, which all clocked in around a few megabytes, down to only a few thousand bytes each, a compression ratio of some 1000-fold.—Irena Hwang, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Oct. 2021 That translates into the ability to address one megabyte of memory, as compared to 64K bytes for TI’s 9900.—IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017 See All Example Sentences for megabyte
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from the fact that 1,048,576 (220) is the power of 2 closest to one million
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