Definitions
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- noun computing 220 (1,048,576)
bytes . AbbreviatedMiB .
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- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
Etymologies
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From mebi- + byte.
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Examples
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1 KiB (kibibyte) = 1,024 bytes (Note: big k) 1 MiB (mebibyte) = 1,024 KiB = 1,048,576 bytes
Neowin.net Sadat Karim 2010
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This distinction continues in other units, e.g. megabyte (MB, 1000^2) versus mebibyte (MiB, 1024^2), and gigabyte (GB, 1000^3) versus gibibyte (GiB, 1024^3).
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