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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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Within Vinony's link graph, mêga is referenced by 118 other articles, and connects out to 1000000, hertz and pixel.
It is catalogued under the topic SI prefixes.
Its subject is documented across 53 Wikipedia language editions.
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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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