Examples of Use
Depending on compression methods and file format, a megabyte of data can roughly be:
- a 1024×1024 pixel bitmap image with 256 colors (8 bpp color depth).
- a 4 megapixel JPEG image with normal compression is about 1 MB in size.
- About 1 minute of 128 kbit/s MP3 compressed music.
- 6 seconds of uncompressed CD audio.
- a typical English book volume in plain text format (500 pages × 2000 characters per page).
The human genome consists of DNA representing 800 MB of data. The parts that differentiate one person from another can be losslessly compressed to 4 MB.
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