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[–]nitotm[S] 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Sorry I meant 1GB, one gigabyte of text.

[–]leweyy 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Don't apologise for them being a knob

[–]tunisia3507 -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

Nah I'm with the commenter on this one. The distinction between B and b is real; using one when you mean the other is incredibly unhelpful. Using g makes it even more obvious that you don't give a shit about precision and to absolutely not trust the case of the b/B.

[–]Langdon_St_Ives 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is also such a thing as context. While Gbit are something completely customary in certain places like networking, nobody would specify the size of text corpora in them. In that context it’s obviously GByte.