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First known use, by meaning
- from 20th c. A unit of storage or capacity equal to (or 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824) words. It is given the "giga" prefix because of the relative proximity of this value to 10⁹.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: A unit of storage or capacity equal to (or 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824) words. It is given the "giga" prefix because of the relative proximity of this value to 10⁹. Full definition →
First used 20th c.