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Giga (other)
Giga- is a prefix for one billion. Giga or ''GIGA'' may also refer to: Music and dance * Gigue or giga: a Baroque dance * Ģīga, a Latvian musical instrument * Giga (instrument), a Scandinavian musical instrument Other uses * Giga (given name), a Georgian given name * Giga (brand), an adult game and visual novel brand * Giga Pets, a series of virtual pets * GIGA Television, a German TV station * German Institute for Global and Area Studies * Giga (United Nations), UN projects, e.g. to connect schools to the internet * Isuzu Giga, truck series * St.GIGA, a Japanese satellite radio station * Ivan Vuković Ivan Vuković (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Иван Вуковић, born 9 February 1987) is a retired Montenegrin football forward who was last played for FK Iskra Danilovgrad. He is best known for his abilities as a striker but can also play as a su ..., or Giga, Montenegrin footballer See also * Gega (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giga-
Giga ( or ) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of a short-scale billion or long-scale milliard (109 or ). It has the symbol G. ''Giga'' is derived from the Greek word (''gígas''), meaning "giant". The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' reports the earliest written use of ''giga'' in this sense to be in the Reports of the IUPAC 14th Conférence Internationale de Chimie in 1947: "The following prefixes to abbreviations for the names of units should be used: G giga 109×." When referring to information units in computing, such as gigabyte, giga may sometimes mean (230); this causes ambiguity. Standards organizations discourage this and use giga- to refer to 109 in this context too. ''Gigabit'' is only rarely used with the binary interpretation of the prefix. The binary prefix '' gibi'' has been adopted for 230, while reserving ''giga'' exclusively for the metric definition. Pronunciation In English, the prefix ''giga'' can be pronounced (a hard ''g'' as in ''gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |