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How many MBs are 1 GB? 1000 or 1024?

I always knew that 1GB = 1024MB but then I found google digital storage units translator and when I entered 1GB it returned 1000MB. Can anyone explain this?

28th May 2019, 7:43 AM
Ilia Sichinava
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1 GB = 1024 MB
29th May 2019, 9:19 AM
🇼🇳Harsh Raj 🇼🇳
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The actual definition of 1 GB was always 1000 MB. GiB ( gibibyte ) is the one that means 1024 MiB ( mebibyte, also sometimes mibibyte ). It just never caught on. People just use GB to mean both all the time even though it's not really correct, even in official cases, which is quite annoying. Like I believe windows always used 1024 as the definition, but recently switched to 1000.
28th May 2019, 8:13 AM
Dennis
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1024
29th May 2019, 6:43 PM
Bharat Bhushan
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I think 1GB equal 1024MB in general, because it just like 1 MB means 1024kB and 1kB means 1024 bytes, as following binary calculation method. That's all I know Thanks
28th May 2019, 9:28 AM
Rizki Rivaldi
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1024....
29th May 2019, 6:00 AM
Ayan Fox
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Ilia Sichinava Search for "1 MiB to KiB", mind the capitals.
28th May 2019, 10:00 AM
Dennis
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It did same with kilobytes. I searched that and it answered that 1MB = 1000KB. Also kilo means 1000
28th May 2019, 9:58 AM
Ilia Sichinava
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Yep I got what you tryna say. You're right thx👍.
28th May 2019, 10:01 AM
Ilia Sichinava
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It should be 1024mb
28th May 2019, 3:59 PM
micwise michael
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