How would yosu express two hundred million bytes?

Answer 1

There are actually two different schools of thought regarding information.

The first deals in powers of ten. Each prefix is 10^3 away from the last one:

1 kilobyte is 1000 bytes

1 Megabyte is 1000 kilobytes is 1,000,000 bytes

For them, two hundred Megabytes are equal to two hundred million bytes.

The second deals in powers of two since information deals with powers of two and on-off switches. Each prefix is 2^10 away from the last one:

1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes

1 Megabyte is 1024 kilobytes is 1,048,576 bytes.

For them, two hundred million bytes is about 477 Megabytes.

In the first school of thought, this is often referred to as 477 Mebibytes, which is seldom used.

So as for the final answer, it depends on the context, but it should be around 500 Megabytes.