Convert 1 Megabit to Megabytes
How big is 1 megabit? How many megabytes are in 1 megabit? 1 Mbits to MB conversion.
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1 Megabit =
0.125 Megabytes
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Result in Plain English
1 megabit is equal to exactly 1⁄8 of a megabyte.
To a Percentage
1 megabit = 12.5% of a megabyte.
Result as a Fraction
1 megabit
= 1⁄8 megabyte
= one eighth of a megabyte
In Scientific Notation
1 megabit
= 1 x 100 megabits
= 1.25 x 10-1 megabytes
Megabits
A megabit is 1 million bits, or 1/8th of a megabyte. Although files are usually measured in megabytes, internet speed is usually advertised in megabits to make it seem faster.
Megabytes
A megabyte is 1 million bytes. A typical MP3 song is about 4 megabytes in size. A related unit, the mebibyte, is 220 or 1,048,576 bytes.