mebibyte
noun/ˈmɛbɪˌbaɪt/
Etymology From mebi- + byte.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.2012, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 29:
- Synonyms
- MiB