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    A gigabyte (GB) is a unit for how much a computer can hold — photos, songs, apps, files.

    A gigabyte (GB) is a unitgigabyte（GB）是一種單位 for how much a computer can hold用來算電腦能裝多少東西 photos, songs, apps, files像照片、歌曲、app、檔案

    In the tidy computer-science story, one gigabyte is 1,024 , because computers like powers of two. In everyday talk, and on the box of a phone or a hard drive, people often treat a gigabyte as about a billion , which is a little smaller. That is why a “256 GB” phone does not feel quite as as the , and why a “1 TB” drive may show up as about 931 GB on your computer: the seller counted in thousands, the machine counted in 1,024s.

    In the tidy computer-science story在電腦科學工整的說法裡 one gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes一個gigabyte是1,024個megabyte because computers like powers of two因為電腦喜歡2的次方 In everyday talk, and on the box of a phone or a hard drive在日常說法裡，還有手機或硬碟的包裝盒上 people often treat a gigabyte as about a billion bytes大家常常把一個gigabyte當成大約十億個byte which is a little smaller這個數字比較小一點 That is why a "256 GB" phone does not feel quite as roomy as the advert這就是為什麼「256 GB」的手機，實際用起來沒有廣告講的那麼寬敞 and why a "1 TB" drive may show up as about 931 GB on your computer也是為什麼「1 TB」的硬碟在電腦上可能顯示成大約931 GB the seller counted in thousands, the machine counted in 1,024s廠商是用千位在算，機器則是用1,024在算

    You do not need the exact number in daily life; you need the feeling. A few gigabytes is a film or a lot of photos; a phone with 64 GB fills up fast.

    You do not need the exact number in daily life日常生活裡你不需要知道精確的數字 you need the feeling你需要的是那種大概的感覺 A few gigabytes is a film or a lot of photos幾個gigabyte大概就是一部電影，或很多張照片 a phone with 64 GB fills up fast64 GB的手機很快就會滿

    Everyone says GB. Mix it up carefully with gigabit (small b, often Gb): that one is usually about speed, not about how much you can store.

    Everyone says GB大家都說GB Mix it up carefully with gigabit (small b, often Gb)要小心別跟gigabit（小寫b，常寫Gb）搞混 that one is usually about speed那個通常是講速度 not about how much you can store不是講你能存多少東西

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組成giga- (billion, in the scientific naming system) + byte (a small unit of computer information; the spelling comes from bite).

同家族的字

  • bytethe small unit that a gigabyte counts
  • megabytethe step below; in everyday talk, about a thousandth of a gigabyte
  • kilobytea still smaller step on the same kilo- / mega- / giga- ladder
  • terabytethe next big step up from a gigabyte
  • gigabitshares giga-, but counts bits; often used for speed, not stored files

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

gigabytenoun/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/

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    formalcomputingengineeringmathematicsOne billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.

    • The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage.
    • It does not take much effort these days to accumulate several hundred gigabytes of data. A few hundred songs, a couple of vacations’ worth of photos, a dozen movies and television programs — and suddenly the 80 gigabyte hard drive in the notebook computer is straining.
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    informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsA gibibyte.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。