Giga - giga

Japanese: ギガ - ぎが
Giga - giga
It is a unit prefix meaning 10 to the 9th power, written as G. In the field of computers, the binary system is the basis, so 2 to the 10th power is used instead of 10 to the 3rd power, so giga means 2 to the 30th power. It is used in expressions such as gigabyte.

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Japanese:
10の9乗を意味する単位の接頭語で、Gと表記する。コンピューターの分野では2進数が基本となるため、2の10乗が10の3乗の代わりに使われるので、ギガというと2の30乗をいう。ギガバイトなどのように使われる。

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