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GB | ''Information technology'' | ||
(GB). | |||
A gigabyte of information is roughly the equivalent of the largest Encyclopaedia. | |||
Definitions vary, but it is approximately one thousand megabytes. | |||
This would be one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. | |||
In some definitions it is just over 1.07 billion (= 2<sup>30</sup>) bytes. | |||
==See also== | |||
*[[Billion]] | |||
*[[Byte]] | |||
*[[Kilobyte]] | |||
*[[Megabyte]] | |||
*[[Terabyte]] | |||
Revision as of 16:28, 10 March 2017
Information technology
(GB).
A gigabyte of information is roughly the equivalent of the largest Encyclopaedia.
Definitions vary, but it is approximately one thousand megabytes.
This would be one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes.
In some definitions it is just over 1.07 billion (= 230) bytes.
