GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -A megabyte is a collection of about 1, 000, 000 bytes, which is around 1, 000 kilobytes. In the metric system, mega is a prefix for 1, 000, 000, or 106. So in some cases, a megabyte is defined as 1, 000, 000 bytes. But because computers work in binary, computer scientists usually define a megabyte as 220, or 1, 048, 576 bytes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definitions. The unit megabyte is commonly used for 10002 (one million) bytes or 10242 bytes. The interpretation of using base 1024 originated as technical jargon for the byte multiples that needed to be expressed by the powers of 2 but lacked a convenient name.