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Confirmed in ''. In . The binary prefix Gibi - has been suggested for 230, to resolve this ambiguity, but has yet to achieve widespread usage. PRONUNCIATION In English the initial G of ''giga'' can be pronounced with a soft G as in ''jig'', or with a hard G as in ''giggle''. The latter hard G pronunciation has become more common, especially when referring to computer measurements such as Gigabyte and Gigahertz . An example of the soft G pronunciation is found in the 1985 movie '' Back To The Future '', where ''gigawatts'' was pronounced as ''jigawatts''. This was before units like gigabyte became common, and was used to emphasize magnitude, since quantities that large were rare at the time. One conjecture for the ascendant popularity, in the United States, of the hard G pronunciation is that it is a reaction to the way the soft G pronunciation places the word gigabyte so phonetically close to the Racial Slur "jigaboo". COMMON USAGE
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