Encyclopedia > Giga

Article Content

Giga

Giga (symbol: G) is a prefix in the SI system of units denoting 10⁹, or 1,000,000,000.

In computer science a giga can sometimes mean 1,073,741,824 (2³⁰), instead of 1,000,000,000, especially when used to prefix the byte, giving a gigabyte.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

French resistance

... Interallie[?] - Intelligence organization of Roman Cziarnowski[?] and Mathilde Carre[?]. Crushed 1942. Liberation-Nord[?] Liberation-sud[?] One of the first groups ...