gigabyte

n : a unit of information equal to one billion (1,000,000,000)

bytes or one thousand megabytes [syn: {Gigabyte}, {G}, {Gb},

{GB}]

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)