Explanation

computer memory capacity is expressed in multiples of a power of two.

it is measured in megabytes (MB) and gigabytes (GB).

A medium-sized novel contains about 1 MB of information.

1 MB is 1,024 kilobytes, or 1,048,576 (1024x1024) bytes, not one million bytes.

Similarly, one 1 GB is 1,024 MB, or 1,073,741,824 (1024x1024x1024) bytes.