Convert megabyte to gigabyte

What is megabyte?

Most likely, Megabytes are familiar to you. These units of information are now found in many places. A megabyte is referred to as MB.

To understand its meaning, we should first introduce a bit as the smallest metric in this area. It has only two meanings, like yes or no and is utilized as a base for larger options. For instance, 8 bites make up one byte, when they go one after another. It can encode some character and there are different types of encodings.

The next option in this row is kilobyte that means 210 and corresponds to 1024 bytes. This is due to the features of the binary system that utilizes the usual prefix kilo but changes its meaning a bit from 1000.

A Megabyte is, accordingly, the following step in this system or 1024 kilobytes, or more than a million bytes. More precisely, it equals 1048576 bytes.

What is gigabyte?

Before describing Gigabytes and their meaning, we have to move through the binary system and its special metrics.

Thus, a bit is the smallest option with only two meanings, like 0 or 1. It is used as a base for other options. Eight bites comprise one byte when they go one after another. Such a chain encodes some character.

The next step is 210 kilobytes. It corresponds to 1024 bytes. This is because of the special features of this system. Then, goes a megabyte or 1024 kilo- or 1048576 bytes.

A Gigabyte, in turn, is 1024 mega or 1048576 kilo units. In bytes, the number will be even longer, namely 1073741824, more than a billion. It is clear that such large amounts of information are simply inconvenient to record in small units.

This metric is referred to as GB or GByte. For example, a video can weigh several GB.