A megabyte (MB) is commonly used to represent one million bytes of data. This is a basic unit of measure for data storage that is important to understand when discussing the size of files or storage capacity. While the other options appear similar, they are incorrect because a kilobyte equals 1,024 bytes, a gigabyte is approximately one billion bytes, and a terabyte is approximately one trillion bytes.
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