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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 or 119.2 Mebibyte s, as 8 '' Bit s'' equals one ''''' Byte ''''') 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 greater than 7%. This is sufficient to make it economically compelling to represent certain classes of Storage Device s in (true) gigabits or gigabytes rather than gibibits/ Gibibyte s. RAM and Flash Chip s are usually required to have a capacity that is a Power Of Two , but other devices like Hard Disk Drive s need not. SEE ALSO
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