gigabyte : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gigabyte	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gigabyte n a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes Synonym(s): gigabyte, G, GB a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes Synonym(s): gigabyte, gibibyte, G, GB, GiB
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
gigabyte 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 {byte}s = 1024 {megabytes}. Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons). See {prefix}. (1995-09-29)