Mega is a metric prefix meaning one million times, represented by the symbol "M" — so a megabyte is one million bytes, for example. It was officially adopted in 1960 as part of the International System of Units, making it a standard way to express large quantities across science, technology, and everyday measurements.
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- unit symbol
- М
- numeric value
- 1000000
- Commons category
- Mega
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- time of discovery or invention
- 1873-00-00
- described by source
- National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C54653
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Mega, M, är ett SI-prefix som betyder miljon. Exempelvis 1 megavolt (MV) = 1 000 000 volt eller 1 megawatt (MW) = 1 000 000 watt . Ordet kommer från det grekiska ordet μέγας som betyder stor. I sammansättningar med informationsmängdsenheten byte kan prefixen i den övre halvan av ovanstående tabell ha en avvikande betydelse. Det gäller enheterna kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte och yottabyte.
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