BASIC

Question

I am very much confused in between 1MBps and 1MB when we talk in 1MBps then we are taking 1MBps=10^6 byte

and some time

in MB we take 2^20byte  so please can anyone help me out from this when to select which one I am very much confused!!!

Answer 1

When everything is in binary.. Like memory.. we use 2¹⁰.. when the rest units are in decimal.. like bandwidth.. so we multiply 10³ 

1MBps = Mega Bytes per seconds so it is bandwidth ,  for bandwidth we use 10⁶

like to convert KBPS to BPS we use 10³ but for KB to B we use 2¹⁰ .

For transferring data we use 2¹⁰ 

1MB  is data transfer so we use 2²⁰  , because data exist in 0 or 1 ( binary) so 2ⁿ, where n is bit.