Editing Megabyte (section)

==Examples of use==
[[File:Imation 3.5" diskette 20050729.jpg|right|thumbnail|200px|1.44 MB [[floppy disk]]s can store 1,474,560 bytes of data. MB in this context means 1,000×1,024 bytes.]]
Depending on compression methods and [[file format]], '''a megabyte of data''' can roughly be:
* a 1{{nbsp}}[[megapixel]] [[bitmap]] image (e.g. ~[[XGA+|1152&nbsp;×&nbsp;864]]) with 256 colors (8&nbsp;bits/pixel [[color depth]]) stored without any compression.<!-- (1024×1024×8)/8 = 1048576 bytes -->
* 6{{nbsp}}seconds of [[Compact Disc Digital Audio#Audio format|44.1&nbsp;kHz/16&nbsp;bit]] [[Audio file format#Uncompressed audio format|uncompressed]] CD audio.<!-- (44100×2×16/8)×6 = 1058400 bytes -->
* 1{{nbsp}}minute of 128{{nbsp}}[[Kilobits per second|kbit/s]] [[MP3]] [[Audio file format#Lossy compressed audio format|lossy compressed]] audio.<!-- (128000/8)×60 = 960000 bytes -->
* a typical English book volume in plain text format (500 pages × 2000 characters per page).<!-- 500*2000 = 1000000 bytes -->

The novel ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'', by [[Oscar Wilde]], hosted on [[Project Gutenberg]] as an uncompressed plain text file, is 0.429 MB<!--428,952 bytes-->. ''[[Great Expectations]]'' is 0.994 MB,<!--993,639 bytes--><!-- Minus the table of contents (etc) and Gutenberg metatext at the beginning (505b) and end (18,527b). --><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400|title=Great Expectations|first=Charles|last=Dickens|date=July 1, 1998|via=Project Gutenberg}}</ref> and ''[[Moby Dick]]'' is 1.192 MB.<!--1,191,763 bytes--><!-- Minus the prefaces and notes, and again minus the Gutenberg metatext at the beginning and end. --><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701|title=Moby Dick; Or, The Whale|first=Herman|last=Melville|date=July 1, 2001|via=Project Gutenberg}}</ref> 
The [[human genome]] consists of DNA representing 800{{nbsp}}MB of data. The parts that differentiate one person from another can be compressed to 4{{nbsp}}MB.<ref name="Christley">{{Cite journal | last1 = Christley | first1 = S. | last2 = Lu | first2 = Y. | last3 = Li | first3 = C. | last4 = Xie | first4 = X. | title = Human genomes as email attachments | doi = 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn582 | journal = Bioinformatics | volume = 25 | issue = 2 | pages = 274–275 | year = 2008 | pmid =  18996942| doi-access = free }}</ref>