So sorry...

[curly~sue]

Can anyone out there tell me how many Mb, 1GB is equal to, please?
c~s x

[dot.hawkes]

an MB is a million bytes. a GB is a billion bytes. there are a thousand MBs in a GB

[mattie]

Sorry to be pedantic, but it is 1024 Mb, or 2 to the power of 10. It is a binary number, not a decimal number.

[curly~sue]

Ooh now I'm confused! Is there 1000 or 1032 megabytes in a GB? lol

x

[curly~sue]

:-S

lol x

[dot.hawkes]

but the whole point of the M denotes 1000

[curly~sue]

lol

I am being asked to 'Please specify disk size in Mb' and the disk I have is 1GB.

Thanks all again, c~s x

[curly~sue]

Oh no, I really don't understand all of this. lol

Apparently there's a difference between MB and Mb too. So is the above still correct? Thanks again, lol

[Loosehead]

OK let me clear this up. In common usage we say Kilobyte, Megabyte, gigabyte etc when we actually mean Kibi, mebi, gibibyte. So a kilobyte is 1000, mega 1000000 and giga 1000000000. However in common usage in computing we actually use the denary terminology for the binary values so they are taken to be the binary equivalets, ie 1024, 1048576 and 1073741824 respectively. I hope that clears up the confusion. To answer the question there are 1024 mega(mebi) bytes in a Giga(gibi)byte.