1,000,000 is exactly equal to 1 mega. It's the other part of the computer industry (Windows Explorer, RAM sizes) that abused the notation to pretend 1 kilo = 10

1,000,000 is exactly equal to 1 mega. It's the other part of the computer industry (Windows Explorer, RAM sizes) that abused the notation to pretend 1 kilo = 1024. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix