Full name: megabit
Plural form: megabits
Symbol: Mb
Category type: computer data storage
Scale factor: 125000
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The SI prefix "mega" represents a factor of 106, or in exponential notation, 1E6.
So 1 megabit = 106 bits.
The definition of a bit is as follows:
A bit is a binary digit, taking a value of either 0 or 1. The bit is also a unit of measurement, the information capacity of one binary digit. It has the symbol bit, or b. There are 8 bits in 1 byte.