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Gibibyte


2^(30)=1024^3=1073741824 bytes. Although the term gigabyte is sometimes used to refer to 1024^3 bytes, such usage is deprecated in favor of the standard SI naming convention of 1 gigabyte being equal to 10^9 bytes.


See also

Byte, Exbibyte, Gigabyte, Kibibyte, Mebibyte, Pebibyte, Tebibyte

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References

National Institute of Standards. "Prefixes for Binary Multiples." http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Gibibyte." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Gibibyte.html

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