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1. gigabytes

   The gigabyte () is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB. This definition is used in all contexts of science (especially data science), engineering, business, and many areas of computing, including storage capacities of hard drives, solid state drives, and tapes, as well as data transmission speeds. However, the term is also used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote 1073741824 (10243 or 230) bytes, particularly for sizes of RAM. Thus, prior to 1998, some usage of gigabyte has been ambiguous. To resolve this difficulty, IEC 80000-13 clarifies that a gigabyte (GB) is 109 bytes and specifies the term gibibyte (GiB) to denote 230 bytes. These differences are still readily seen for example, when a 400 GB drive's capacity is displayed by Microsoft Windows as 372 GB instead of 372 GiB. Analogously, a memory module that is labeled as having the size "1GB" has one gibibyte (1GiB) of storage capacity. In response to litigation over whether the makers of electronic storage devices must conform to Microsoft Windows' use of a binary definition of "GB" instead of the metric/decimal definition, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California rejected that argument, ruling that "the U.S. Congress has deemed the decimal definition of gigabyte to be the 'preferred' one for the purposes of 'U.S. trade and commerce.'"

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1. gigabytes

   Plural form of gigabyte.

   There are three gigabyte on the drive, one is used and there are two gigabytes available.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 6, 2015  

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gigabytes in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gigabytes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of gigabytes in a Sentence

1. Scott Gegenheimer:

   The amount of data we're giving away in our packages is not sustainable in the long run. In Europe, the U.S., the price for 1 or 2 gigabytes is the same as you pay in Saudi Arabia for 500 gigabytes, we have to get some of these packages under control ... because (otherwise) you're not going to be able to monetize the data.

2. David Vaile:

   Some mobile plans may only include a few gigabytes of data so if Google is harvesting a gigabyte of data, it is a very real cost to consumers.

3. Hanbyul Joo:

   One minute of videos is about 500 gigabytes which is really huge data. To handle that data we are using 120 hard drives only for the capture.

4. Scott Gegenheimer:

   The amount of data we're giving away in our packages is not sustainable in the long run. In Europe, the U.S., the price for 1 or 2 gigabytes is the same as you pay in Saudi Arabia for 500 gigabytes, we have to get some of these packages under control ... because (otherwise) you're not going to be able to monetise the data.

5. Jim Simpson:

   The real key to being able to do these type of things is ultra high-throughput capabilities, where we’re looking at providing gigabytes, terrabytes, pedabytes of capability.

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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabytes