One gigasecond, or 1 000 000 000 seconds, is slightly more than thirty-one and a half years.
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Giga ethernet is technologies for transmitting Ethernetframes at a rate of a gigabit per second,
I assume "gig" is short for "giga-bit per second" or gbps. mbps means "mega-bit per second". In this case, mega means million, while giga means billion, so giga is much more.
The prefix giga- usually refers to a multiplying factor of one billion; a gigahertz is one billion cycles per second.
Gigaflop is billion (giga) floating point operations per second.
1 gigahertz is equal to 1 billion cycles per second.
Giga-tronics Incorporated (GIGA) had its IPO in 1983.
If you mean a giga second, yes it exists. however, in common terminology, it's best to go with hours, days, months and years
As of July 2014, the market cap for Giga-tronics Incorporated (GIGA) is $10,258,869.06.
In the SI (metric) system of units, the prefix "giga..." means "a billion of them".
In math, there are 9 zeros in giga. Giga is part of the SI prefixes. Giga symbol is G. If giga were money it would means you have one billion dollars.
'giga...' = 109
The symbol for Giga-tronics Incorporated in NASDAQ is: GIGA.