[Gllug] Bytes to Megabytes

[Julian Somers]

Can anyone confirm for me a definition of a Megabyte that is correct for
measuring volumes of traffic?

I am doing a script that reports the number of Meagbytes transferred
during a VPN session. I collect data in bytes.

I have always used ( bytes / 1024 ) / 1024 to calculate file sizes in MB
(1MB = 1,048,576 bytes). But having read the three definitions of a
Megabyte here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte -- I believe I
should be using 1MB = 1,000,000 bytes in this case.

Julian 

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