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Bet you think a gigabyte is a thousand megabytes too.
Yes in networking we use the decimals based decimal-based Gigabyte and Megabyte.
So Megabyte = 1000 Bytes Gigabyte = 1000 Megabytes.
When referring to the binary based system, like with computer RAM we use Mebibytes = 1024 bytes Gebibytes = 1024 Mebibytes
Damn, you really just outed yourself like that.
Well, I rest my case.
As knowledgeable engineer who knows accurate technical terms? I should hope so. That’s been self evident from the start.