1) Unit of information 
The mebibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The binary prefix mebi means 220; therefore 1 mebibyte is {gaps|1|048|576| bytes}. The unit symbol for the mebibyte is MiB. The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1998. It was designed to replace the megabyte used in some computer scien...