On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:08:32PM -0500, Mike Hicks wrote:
> Is there a moderately accurate description of what a megapixel is?  I
> have a couple of guesses (a million pixels, the number of pixels at
> 1024x768, etc), but I don't really know..

It's just the number of pixels in the image (in millions). A 1600x1200
desktop would be 1600 * 1200 = 1,920,000 pixels.

-Tim

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