Associations to the word «Gigabyte»

Wiktionary

GIGABYTE, noun. (SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
GIGABYTE, noun. (computing) (colloquial) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.

Dictionary definition

GIGABYTE, noun. A unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes.
GIGABYTE, noun. A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes.

Wise words

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