Confusion with megabytes, 1 megabyte is 1 million bytes or 1024 * 1024 (1048576) bytes?

JIGAR PATEL    Uncategorized     megabytes

i have two question

1> 1 megabyte is 1 million bytes or 1024 * 1024 (1048576) bytes?  

2> what is the Difference between Mibit/s or Mib/s and MB/s or MBps and Mbit/s, Mb/s and Mbps MiB/s or MiBps?

“MB/s” usually means “megabytes per second”. This can be one of two definitions, depending on who you ask:

1> 1 million bytes per second (8 million bits per second) (per the IEEE’s definition)

OR

• 2> The more commonly seen definition of 1024 * 1024 (1048576) bytes per second (8388608        bits per second), seen commonly in many usages.

In most of the way 1 megabyte = 1024 * 1024 (1048576) bytes were taken in account but few years ago

The IEEE has proposed that computers should follow the SI prefixes, and use “Megabyte” to mean 10^6 bytes, not 2^20 bytes, which has been done historically. And thus created all the confusion over which definition of a megabyte one is actually using.

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