Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 megabytes (230 bytes).
- noun One billion bytes.
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- noun SI 109, one billion (1,000,000,000)
bytes , as opposed to agibibyte .SI symbol:GB - noun computing, colloquial Imprecisely, a
gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes.SI symbol:GiB , computing symbol:GB .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Those who mainly do Web surfing or e-mail have little reason to pay attention to the traffic caps: a gigabyte is about 3,000 Web pages, or 15,000 e-mails without attachments.
Time Warner Cable Begins Testing Metered Internet In Texas - The Consumerist 2008
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Albert Fert (born March 7, 1938) is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. binaryspiral
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This is awesome: FERT in the wild! 2008
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The ISPs' costs, however, to deliver a marginal gigabyte, which is about an hour of viewing, from one of our regional interchange points over their last mile wired network to the consumer is less than a penny, and falling, so there is no reason that pay-per-gigabyte is economically necessary.
Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011
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The ISPs' costs, however, to deliver a marginal gigabyte, which is about an hour of viewing, from one of our regional interchange points over their last mile wired network to the consumer is less than a penny, and falling, so there is no reason that pay-per-gigabyte is economically necessary.
Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011
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They're also many times more expensive per gigabyte, which is why you don't see SSD technology in every computer on the market -- yet.
Fool.com Headlines 2010
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The gibibyte is closely related to the gigabyte, which is defined as 109 bytes =
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The gibibyte is closely related to the gigabyte, which is defined as 109 bytes =
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The gibibyte is closely related to the gigabyte, which is defined as 109 bytes =
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Ten years later, the cost was $1.15 per gigabyte, meaning that the cost had fallen by nearly a factor of 1000.
Moore's Law for Storage, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The ISPs’ costs, however, to deliver a marginal gigabyte, which is about an hour of viewing, from one of our regional interchange points over their last mile wired network to the consumer is less than a penny, and falling, so there is no reason that pay-per-gigabyte is economically necessary.
Canada rethinks metered Internet, as U.S. pushes ahead Cecilia Kang 2011
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