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mebibyte

noun
/ˈmɛbɪˌbaɪt/

Etymology

From mebi- + byte.

Definitions

  1. Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a…

    Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.

    • At a minimum, a textual (command-line) system requires 256 mebibytes of RAM and a graphical (desktop) system requires 384-512 mebibytes of RAM.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mebibyte. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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