Giga prefix

Because of the difference in the meaning of the word biUion in the United States and most other countries, this term must be avoided the prefix giga is unambiguous. 

Prefix deca- kilo- mega- giga- tera- ... 

United States, billion means a thousand million (prefix giga), but, in most other... 

Prefix peta- tera- giga- mega- milli- micro- nano- pico- femto- atto- ... 

Size, in computer terms, uses idiosyncratic units in addition to the bit and byte. Outside the world of computing, the prefixes kilo, mega, giga, and tera ordinarily refer to 10, 10, 10, and 10, respectively. However, when used with byte, they refer instead to 2, 2 , 2, and 2 . That is, a kilobyte is not 1000 bytes but 1024 bytes. The reason is that addresses, the numbers that refer to the location of digital data, are binary numbers, so a kilobyte is the total number of bytes that can be addressed by a ten bit address, and it carries the kho prefix because it is the power of 2 closest to 1000. Likewise a megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes because it is the power of 2 closest to 1,000,000, and represents the number of locations addressable by 20 bits. 

Prefix deca hecto kilo mega giga tera... 

State the numbers or fractions represented by the following metric prefixes, and write their abbreviations giga, mega, kilo, centi, milli, micro, nano, and pico. (For example, kilo is 10 and is represented by k.)... 

G Gauss guanine (in genetic code) giga (SI prefix for... 

Place the following metric prefixes in order from the smallest value to the largest value deci, kilo, centi, micro, mega, milli, giga, nano. 

Rank the following prefixes in order of increasing size of the number they represent centi-, giga-, nano-, and kilo-. 

Giga- ji-g9, gi- combining form [ISV, fr. Gk gigas giant] (G). SI prefix meaning xlO. hide DR (ed) (2004) CRC handbook of chemistry and physics. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 

Common prefixes for metric units—which may apply in more cases than shown below—include giga- (1 billion times the unit), mega- (one million times), kih- (1,000 times), hecto- (100 times), deka- (10 times), deci- (0.1 times, or one tenth), centi-(0.01, or one hundredth), milli- (0.001, or one thousandth), and micro- (0.0001, or one millionth). 

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