Megabytes to Bytes conversion

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How to convert megabytes to bytes

1 megabytes (MB) is equal to 1000000 bytes (B). Conversely, 1 bytes (B) is equal to 1.0×10^-6 megabytes (MB).

See below section for step by step unit conversion with formulas and explanations. Please refer to the table below for a list of all the Bytes to other unit conversions.

Step by step guide to convert megabytes to bytes

Shorthand (abbreviation) form

1 MB=106 B=1,000,000 B1\ MB = 10^{6}\ B = 1,000,000\ B

or

1 B=106 MB1\ B = 10^{-6}\ MB

Longhand form

1 Megabytes=106 bytes=1,000,000 bytes1\ Megabytes = 10^{6}\ bytes = 1,000,000\ bytes

Notes: Related but different units MegabitsMegabits, MebibitsMebibits, MegabytesMegabytes and MebibytesMebibytes. Please see the conversion table below for ByteByte to other measurement conversions.

What is a Megabyte?

Megabyte, MBMB, is a unit of digital information. Mega is used as a unit prefix in metrics system. It represent a numerical value 10610^6 or 1,000,0001,000,000. List of SI prefix can be found on Wikipidia.

There are two common ways unit of information is represented. One is in decimal (base 10) form and the other is in power of 2 (binary). MegabyteMegabyte is referring to the base 10 format, unlike MebibitMebibit which is referring to base 2 format.

1 Megabyte=>1 MB (shorthandform)1\text{ }Megabyte => 1\text{ } MB\text{ }(shorthand form)

1 MB=1,000,000 byte=106 bytes1\text{ }MB = 1,000,000\text{ }byte = 10^6\text{ }bytes

More examples can be found on Stanford's Kilobytes Megabytes Gigabytes Terabytes article

What is a Byte?

Byte is used to measure unit of digital information. In general, byte is equivalent to 8 bits in computers. the symbol for byte is BB (capital b) as Specified in IEC, IEEE and Metric Interchange Format.

For more info take a look at Bits and Bytes definition from Stanford

1B=8bites1\,B = 8\,bites

Complete Megabytes conversion table

Enter # of Megabytes
Convert 1 MB to other unitsResult
Megabytes to Bits (MB to b)8000000
Megabytes to Kilobits (MB to Kb)8000
Megabytes to Kibibits (MB to Kib)7812.5
Megabytes to Megabits (MB to Mb)8
Megabytes to Mebibits (MB to Mib)7.62939453125
Megabytes to Gigabits (MB to Gb)0.008
Megabytes to Gibibits (MB to Gib)0.007450580596923828
Megabytes to Terabits (MB to Tb)0.000008
Megabytes to Tebibits (MB to Tib)0.000007275957614183426
Megabytes to Bytes (MB to B)1000000
Megabytes to Kilobytes (MB to KB)1000
Megabytes to Kibibytes (MB to KiB)976.5625
Megabytes to Mebibytes (MB to MiB)0.95367431640625
Megabytes to Gigabytes (MB to GB)0.001
Megabytes to Gibibytes (MB to GiB)0.0009313225746154785
Megabytes to Terabytes (MB to TB)0.000001
Megabytes to Tebibytes (MB to TiB)9.094947017729282e-7
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