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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gigabyte
noun: a unit of information equal to one billion (1,073,741,824) bytes or 1024 megabytes [syn: {G}, {GB}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
gigabyte 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 {byte}s = 1024 {megabytes}. Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons). See {prefix}. (1995-09-29)
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