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A gigabyte (GB) is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is "roughly" a billion bytes. A gigabyte is two to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 in decimal notation. The term may be pronounced with two hard Gs (as in "goose") or with a soft first G (as in "giraffe") although the second pronunciation is the most common. The prefix, "giga" comes from a Greek word meaning "giant."
Similar words: gigabit, megabyte, terabyte, and exabyte.
Other similar words: petabyte, exabyte, Kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, and all that, and Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, and pebi.
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