n. 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes, as opposed to a gibibyte. SI symbol: GB
n. Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.
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n. a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
n. a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
Word Usage
"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."