Practice Essentials. Coronary artery atherosclerosis is the single largest killer of men and women in the United States. It is the principal cause of coronary artery disease (CAD), in which atherosclerotic changes are present within the walls of the coronary arteries.
A megabit, then, is approximately 1 million typed characters. Here is where the formula 8 bits = 1 byte can be used to convert megabits to megabytes, and vice versa. Another way to look at it is that a megabit is 1/8 of a megabyte, or that a megabyte is 8 times that of a megabit. Since we know that a megabyte is 8 times what the megabit value is, we can easily figure the megabyte equivalent by multiplying the megabit number by 8. Here are some easy examples: Eight (8) megabits = 1 megabyte (8 Mb = 1 MB) One (1) megabit = 1/8 megabyte = 0.125 megabyte (1Mb = 1/8 MB = 0.125 M)
For example, one megabyte (one million bytes) is actually 1,048,576 (decimal) bytes. (Confusingly, however, some hard disk manufacturers and dictionary sources state that bytes for computer storage should be calculated as powers of 10 so that a megabyte really would be one million decimal bytes.).