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A gigabit is a unit of information or computer storage, abbreviated '''Gbit''' or sometimes '''Gb'''. 1 gigabit = 109 = 1,000,000,000 Bit s (which is equal to 125 decimal Megabyte s) The gigabit is closely related to the Gibibit , which is unambiguously equal to 230 bits = 1,073,741,824 bits. Note that the difference between a billion bits and a gibibit is fully 7%. This is sufficient to make it economically compelling to represent certain classes of storage devices in (true) gigabits or gigabytes rather than gibibits/gibibytes. RAM and Flash chips are usually required to have a capacity that is a power of two, but other devices like disk drives need not. SEE ALSO
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