Convert 12 Megabits to Megabytes
How big is 12 megabits? How many megabytes are in 12 megabits? 12 Mbits to MB conversion.
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12 Megabits =
1.5 Megabytes
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Result in Plain English
12 megabits is equal to exactly 1 and a 1⁄2 megabytes.
To a Percentage
12 megabits = 150% of a megabyte.
Result as a Fraction
12 megabits
= 3⁄2 megabytes
= 1 and 1⁄2 megabytes
In Scientific Notation
12 megabits
= 1.2 x 101 megabits
= 1.5 x 100 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.