What is kibibyte (binary)?

A kibibyte is a binary data unit equal to 1,024 bytes. It is the IEC-standard unit that precisely distinguishes binary-based kilobyte measurements from the decimal kilobyte used in storage marketing.

What is megabyte (decimal)?

A megabyte in the decimal system is a data unit equal to 1,000 kilobytes. It is commonly used by storage manufacturers, internet service providers, and operating systems to express file sizes and storage capacities.

Worked examples

1 kibibyte (binary) = 0.001024 megabyte (decimal)

1 megabyte (decimal) = 1,000,000 byte