Gigabyte
type: CountingUnit
type: Unit
description: The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means $10^9$ in the International System of Units (SI), therefore 1 gigabyte is $1,000,000,000 \; bytes$. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is $GB$ or $Gbyte$, but not $Gb$ (lower case b) which is typically used for the gigabit. Historically, the term has also been used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote the $gibibyte$, or $1073741824 \; bytes$.
applicable system: ASU
applicable system: CGS
applicable system: CGS-EMU
applicable system: CGS-ESU
applicable system: CGS-GAUSS
applicable system: IMPERIAL
applicable system: PLANCK
applicable system: SI
conversion multiplier: 8000000000.0
conversion multiplier SN: 8.0E9
dbpedia match: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Gigabyte
has dimension vector: A0E0L0I0M0H0T0D1
has quantity kind: AmountOfData
has quantity kind: ByteDataVolume
has quantity kind: DatasetOfBytes
iec61360 code: 0112/2///62720#UAB185
informative reference: https://cdd.iec.ch/cdd/iec62720/iec62720.nsf/Units/0112-2---62720%23UAB185
informative reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
prefix: Giga
scaling of: BYTE
symbol: GB
ucum code: GBy
unece common code: E34
unit for quantity kind: AmountOfData
unit for quantity kind: ByteDataVolume
unit for quantity kind: DatasetOfBytes
wikidata match: Q79738
alternative label: gbyte