Gibibytes to Megabytes conversion

What is gibibytes?

A gigabyte (GB) is a unit of digital information that represents the amount of data stored in a computer or other electronic device. It's equivalent to 1,073,741,824 bytes (or 1024 megabytes).

To break it down further:

• A kilobyte (KB) = 1,024 bytes
• A megabyte (MB) = 1,024 kilobytes
• A gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 megabytes

Now, let's talk about gibibytes!

A gibibyte (GiB) is a unit of digital information that represents the amount of data stored in a computer or other electronic device. The key difference between gibibytes and gigabytes is the way they're defined:

• A gigabyte (GB) = 1,073,741,824 bytes
• A gibibyte (GiB) = 2^30 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes

That's about a 4.88% difference!

Gibibytes were introduced in 1998 by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), which is the organization responsible for standardizing many units of measurement in computing.

The use of gibibytes is not as widespread as gigabytes, but it's still used in some contexts to provide a more precise representation of digital storage capacity.

What is a Megabyte?

Megabyte, $MB$, is a unit of digital information. Mega is used as a unit prefix in metrics system. It represent a numerical value $10^6$ or $1,000,000$. 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). $Megabyte$ is referring to the base 10 format, unlike $Mebibit$ which is referring to base 2 format.

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

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

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