10485760

10485760 is the decimal representation of the integer 10,485,760. In computing contexts this value is most commonly interpreted as 10 mebibytes (MiB), because one mebibyte equals 2^20 bytes (1,048,576 bytes). Therefore, 10 MiB equals 10 × 1,048,576 = 10,485,760 bytes.

Mebibyte is part of the binary prefixes defined by the IEC to distinguish from the decimal megabyte (MB), where 1 MB is 1,000,000 bytes. As a result, 10,485,760 bytes is approximately 10.48576 MB in decimal terms, though many software packages still report sizes as MB rather than MiB. This distinction can lead to minor discrepancies between reported file sizes, disk capacities, and memory allocations.

Applications of this figure appear in computer memory sizes, cache allocations, or disk or network transfer thresholds. For example, a memory buffer of around 10 MiB would be 10,485,760 bytes. In programming, using exact byte counts is important to avoid misinterpretation and ensure predictable memory usage.

See also: mebibyte, megabyte, byte, binary prefix, IEC prefixes.