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Discussion about centralization took place at Talk:Binary prefix.

Right, according to the article there is a clear distinction between 10 to the power 9 and 2 to the power 30, while they are stated as equivalent in the table. Why is this?

Balenman

The table does not say that 10⁹ is equivalent to 2³⁰; rather, it says that "gigabit" is either 10⁹ or 2³⁰ (because "gigabit" is ambiguous) and that "gigabit" is related to "gibibit".

One-dimensional Tangent (Talk) 17:59, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

history?

I've done quite a bit of computer science, and almost remember hearing about these units. Might be nice to include on the page a bit about where and when (and whom) they came from. I have no recollection, and I kinda missed the info.

Just my $0.02

See Binary prefix — Omegatron 05:40, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Is it pronounced Gi-bee-bit? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilovemrdoe (talk • contribs) 15:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. See Binary Prefix. Thunderbird2 (talk) 16:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Binary Binary?

The lead currently says gibibit means "giga binary digit", but to be consistent with gibi- and bit, it should actually be "gigabinary binary digit". That looks rather awkward though. Thoughts? Otus (talk) 13:39, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Significance?

Is this unit actually used in the computer science / electrical engineering industry? It seems it creates practically no hits on google.com. I'm wondering if this article is useful at all, and should be marked for deletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.97.84.47 (talk) 20:34, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

88 hits Dondervogel 2 (talk) 13:00, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Compared to 49,500 hits for gigabit. The term is hardly used. This article should be marked for deletion until such time if the term becomes widely used. Glider87 (talk) 06:38, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We could merge it with Gigabit and leave this as a redirect since gigabit can also refer to 2³⁰ bits. JIMp_talk·cont 00:44, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]