gigabyte

Noun
Synonyms: GGBgibibyteGiB

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytesSynonyms: GGB
  2. a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytesSynonyms: gibibyteGGBGiB
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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

gigabyte gig

<unit, data> (GB or colloquially "gig") A unit of data equal to one billion bytes but see binary prefix for other definitions. A gigabyte is 1000^3 bytes or 1000 megabytes.

A human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons) contains about 1.5 gigabytes of data.

1000 gigabytes are one terabyte.

See prefix.

{Human genome data content

(http://bitesizebio.com/articles/how-much-information-is-stored-in-the-human-genome/)}.

(2013-11-03)

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