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gigabyte
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gigabyte

One billion bytes. Also GB, Gbyte and G-byte. See giga and space/time.

(unit)gigabyte - 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes.

Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons).

See prefix.


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