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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, a compression ratio of some 1000-fold.—Irena Hwang, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Oct. 2021 That translates into the ability to address one megabyte of memory, as compared to 64K bytes for TI’s 9900.—IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017 The processor pushes data though a pipeline of about 140 operations at a blistering rate of 400 megabytes per second.—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Nov. 2015 Trifecta has a minimal number of dependencies and clocks in at 3 megabytes of code, a fraction of the size of competing solutions.—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for megabyte
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from the fact that 1,048,576 (220) is the power of 2 closest to one million
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