In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
GIGABYTE
gigabyte, gibibyte, GB, GiB
(noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
gigabyte, GB
(noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gigabyte (plural gigabytes)
(SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
(computing) a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes.
Synonyms
• GB, ㎇
• gig
Coordinate terms
• Previous: megabyte
• Next: terabyte
Source: Wiktionary
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