Meaning of gigaword | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“Frank let⟳ him have⟳ two white mice, a rabbit, and an elderly Airedale, along with a large time slice on the hospital's MEG-computational facilities, a few gigawords of data storage capacity, petty cash for wiring, and a stern warning that "any human 'volunteers' had better be named Robbins, Chun, or Hostler" to avoid⟳ repetitions of unfortunate past misadventures with patients who had not quite understood to what they were agreeing.”

“It has been calculated that a 100 ps pulse width would be short enough for a 1-Gigaword/second, 6 bit converter and …”

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