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Gigawatts
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:04 pm
by TheCatt
Gigabytes... giga, giga, wut?
Re: Gigawatts
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:38 pm
by thibodeaux
I had a prof who said "giga" is the root of "gigantic," so...
Re: Gigawatts
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:45 pm
by GORDON
Did he say that his hard drive was 500 jiggabytes big?
Re: Gigawatts
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:12 pm
by TPRJones
It does come from the same root as giant, but then giga as a prefix originated from germany where it is pronounced with a hard g (like giggle), so both cases can be made with argument from antiquity. The US National Bureau of Standards declared fifty years ago that it's pronounced jigga. Most people say giga. At this point either one is legit.
Re: Gigawatts
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:35 pm
by TheCatt
Re: Gigawatts
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:28 pm
by Malcolm
The US National Bureau of Standards declared fifty years ago that it's pronounced jigga.
The USNBS can suck a gigacock.