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Gigabyte


One billion (10^9) bytes. Unfortunately, the term is sometimes also used to mean 2^(30)=1024^3=1073741824 bytes. However, this usage is deprecated, and the term gibibyte is preferred for 1024^3 bytes.


See also

Byte, Gibibyte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Million, Terabyte

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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. "Gigabyte." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Gigabyte.html

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