Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation; that is, they are waves of electrical and magnetic energy moving together through space. Electromagnetic radiation spans a broad spectrum from very long radio waves to very short gamma rays.
A MB, which is an abbreviation for a megabyte, is bigger than a KB, which is an abbreviation for a kilobyte. A megabyte is commonly understood to be equivalent to one million bytes, where a byte is equal to eight bits. Where as, a kilobyte consists of one thousand bytes. Continue Reading. A megabyte is one thousand times larger than a kilobyte.
The prefix kilo, also used in the metric system, denotes 1024 bytes or a kilobyte. The number isn't exactly 1,000 because bytes are based off the binary system (0 and 1) where 2^10 = 1024. Megabytes versus Gigabytes. Megabytes and gigabytes, like the kilobyte, are magnitudes of bytes. Basically, a gigabyte is larger than a megabyte. The difference is similar to that between one billion and one million, respectively. For example, when you buy a computer with 500 GB, this means it can store approximately 500 billion bytes of information.