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The CD has a storage capacity of 800 megabytes.
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Our human compressors condensed the original images, which all clocked in around a few megabytes, down to only a few thousand bytes each.
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Irena Hwang, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Oct. 2021
In these areas, a 2 megabyte file can take as long as 30 minutes to download.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2013
Vampire Survivors weighs in at a puny 600 megabytes.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
Our human compressors condensed the original images, which all clocked in around a few megabytes, down to only a few thousand bytes each, a compression ratio of some 1000-fold.
—Irena Hwang, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Oct. 2021
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Irena Hwang, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Oct. 2021
In these areas, a 2 megabyte file can take as long as 30 minutes to download.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2013
Vampire Survivors weighs in at a puny 600 megabytes.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
Our human compressors condensed the original images, which all clocked in around a few megabytes, down to only a few thousand bytes each, a compression ratio of some 1000-fold.
—Irena Hwang, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Oct. 2021
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“Megabyte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/megabyte. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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megabyte
noun
mega·byte
ˈmeg-ə-ˌbīt 
: 1,048,576 bytes
also
: one million bytes
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