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Dec 14, 2002 19:31
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Spanish term
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Native in: Spanish (Variant: Standard-Spain) 
Works in: French to Spanish, Russian to Spanish, Spanish
megabyte
Spanish
Tech/Engineering
Computers: Software
software
¿Cual es la abreviación correcta de megabyte en español, MB o Mb?
He encontrado las dos formas, así que me gustaría una respuesta fundamentada en referencias.
Gracias.
He encontrado las dos formas, así que me gustaría una respuesta fundamentada en referencias.
Gracias.
Responses
| 5 +4 | Morre often MB but also Mb |
Massimo Gaido
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| 5 +1 | MB |
LQA Russian
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| 5 | MB |
Zulma Vaughan (X)
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Massimo Gaido
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Morre often MB but also Mb
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That is what I found on line.
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As I said before, MB is used more often, but you can find Spanish sites that use Mb also.
El tamaño de los ficheros se mide en K\'s o Kilobytes. Un Mega o Megabyte (Mb) equivale a 1024 K\'s.
http://www2.cbm.uam.es/sdi/semin/emailfaq.htm
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Un kilobyte (Kb) son 1024 bytes, un Megabyte (Mb) son 1024 Kb, un Gigabyte son 1024 Mb
Un Archivo o Fichero es un conjunto de bytes. Por ejemplo un documento de texto es un archivo, un dibujo también es un archivo, etc.
http://www.aulaclic.org/winxp/b_4_1_1.htm
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Para PC. Eidos. Distribuido por Proein. 8.495 ptas. Pentium 100. 16 Mb de RAM. Cd rom 4x. Tarjeta gráfica SVGA. Tarjeta de sonido SoundBlaster.
http://www.el-mundo.es/larevista/num129/textos/conec.html
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Bien, la próxima vez que piense en gastar dinero en el vasto valle de los datos armado con un miserable disco duro de 40 Mb, debería considerar añadir un CD-ROM a su sistema. Tiene más de 600 Megabytes de capacidad en cada disco CD.
http://www.avalonsoftware.org/encanta/idgaw/38/cdrom.html
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Hemos de tener en cuenta que el actual bus PCI va a 33 MHz. (132 Mb/s máximo), una velocidad bastante inferior a la del microprocesador. AGP incorpora un nuevo sistema de transferencia de datos a más velocidad, gracias al uso de la memoria principal del PC.
http://www.duiops.net/hardware/placas/placas.htm
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That is what I found on line.
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Note added at 2002-12-14 20:07:36 (GMT)
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As I said before, MB is used more often, but you can find Spanish sites that use Mb also.
El tamaño de los ficheros se mide en K\'s o Kilobytes. Un Mega o Megabyte (Mb) equivale a 1024 K\'s.
http://www2.cbm.uam.es/sdi/semin/emailfaq.htm
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Note added at 2002-12-14 20:08:33 (GMT)
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Un kilobyte (Kb) son 1024 bytes, un Megabyte (Mb) son 1024 Kb, un Gigabyte son 1024 Mb
Un Archivo o Fichero es un conjunto de bytes. Por ejemplo un documento de texto es un archivo, un dibujo también es un archivo, etc.
http://www.aulaclic.org/winxp/b_4_1_1.htm
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Note added at 2002-12-14 20:10:27 (GMT)
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Para PC. Eidos. Distribuido por Proein. 8.495 ptas. Pentium 100. 16 Mb de RAM. Cd rom 4x. Tarjeta gráfica SVGA. Tarjeta de sonido SoundBlaster.
http://www.el-mundo.es/larevista/num129/textos/conec.html
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Note added at 2002-12-14 20:11:48 (GMT)
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Bien, la próxima vez que piense en gastar dinero en el vasto valle de los datos armado con un miserable disco duro de 40 Mb, debería considerar añadir un CD-ROM a su sistema. Tiene más de 600 Megabytes de capacidad en cada disco CD.
http://www.avalonsoftware.org/encanta/idgaw/38/cdrom.html
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Note added at 2002-12-14 20:12:57 (GMT)
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Hemos de tener en cuenta que el actual bus PCI va a 33 MHz. (132 Mb/s máximo), una velocidad bastante inferior a la del microprocesador. AGP incorpora un nuevo sistema de transferencia de datos a más velocidad, gracias al uso de la memoria principal del PC.
http://www.duiops.net/hardware/placas/placas.htm
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24 mins
LQA Russian
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Native in: Russian 
Works in: English to Russian, French to Russian, Portuguese to Russian, and 3 more.
MB
MB - megabyte
Mb - megabit
1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes
1 megabit = one million bits
NB: byte and bit are not the same thing!
bit = a binary digit. In digital computing, the smallest unit of digital information. A bit can either be "on" or "off", represented as a "1" or a "0." All data processed by a computer is composed of bits organized into larger groups of bytes (8 bits) and words (two bytes).
byte = a group of 8 bits of digital information. One byte is required to represent an alphabetic character. A byte is the smallest addressable unit of memory. One thousand bytes is a kilobyte (KB), one million bytes, a megabyte (MB), one billion bytes a gigabyte (GB), and one quadrillion bytes a terabyte (TB).
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http://www.kbeta.com/Ktips/bitsvsbytes.htm
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Massimo,
your last example (132 Mb/s máximo) is about megabits per second, not megabytes. Bits and bytes are often confounded.
Cheers.
Mb - megabit
1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes
1 megabit = one million bits
NB: byte and bit are not the same thing!
bit = a binary digit. In digital computing, the smallest unit of digital information. A bit can either be "on" or "off", represented as a "1" or a "0." All data processed by a computer is composed of bits organized into larger groups of bytes (8 bits) and words (two bytes).
byte = a group of 8 bits of digital information. One byte is required to represent an alphabetic character. A byte is the smallest addressable unit of memory. One thousand bytes is a kilobyte (KB), one million bytes, a megabyte (MB), one billion bytes a gigabyte (GB), and one quadrillion bytes a terabyte (TB).
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http://www.kbeta.com/Ktips/bitsvsbytes.htm
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Massimo,
your last example (132 Mb/s máximo) is about megabits per second, not megabytes. Bits and bytes are often confounded.
Cheers.
Peer comment(s):
| disagree |
Massimo Gaido
: Mb is also used
11 mins
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Sure, but this doesn't mean it is correct. The correct abbreviation for 'megabyte' is MB.
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| agree |
lidius
: Completamente de acuerdo contigo.
1 day 50 mins
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| agree |
Eusebio Abasolo
: Si señor, tecnicamente 1B=8b
1 day 2 hrs
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4 hrs
MB
Mb
abbr.
megabit.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
MB
abbr.
Medicinae Baccalaureus (Bachelor of Medicine).
Manitoba.
megabyte.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
abbr.
megabit.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
MB
abbr.
Medicinae Baccalaureus (Bachelor of Medicine).
Manitoba.
megabyte.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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