Gibibit

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v • d • e Quantities of bits
SI prefixes			Binary prefixes
Name (Symbol)	Standard SI	Rare usage	Name (Symbol)	Value
kilobit (kb)	103	210	kibibit (Kibit)	210
megabit (Mb)	106	220	mebibit (Mibit)	220
gigabit (Gb)	109	230	gibibit (Gibit)	230
terabit (Tb)	1012	240	tebibit (Tibit)	240
petabit (Pb)	1015	250	pebibit (Pibit)	250
exabit (Eb)	1018	260	exbibit (Eibit)	260
zettabit (Zb)	1021	270	zebibit (Zibit)	270
yottabit (Yb)	1024	280	yobibit (Yibit)	280

Note: the term "gibibit" is a theoretical word based on constructions found in the IEC binary prefix naming scheme. Though intended to be morphologically parallel to "gibibyte" the word "gibibit" has no known practical application.^[1]

A gibibit (a contraction of giga binary binary digit) is a proposed unit of data or computer storage, which can be abbreviated as Gibit or Gib.

1 gibibit = 2³⁰ bits = 1,073,741,824 bits = 1,024 mebibits

[edit] See also

• Gigabit
• Gibibyte
• Gibibit per second
• Binary prefix
• SI prefix
• Orders of magnitude (data)

[edit] Notes and references

1. ^ As bits have traditionally been expressed using base-10 (to express data transfer rates), not base-2, a linguistic parallel to gibibyte is not needed (i.e. there is no established need to express 2³⁰ bits, only 2³⁰ bytes). Reference example: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Megabyte.html)