> On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:24:59 -0400, Herbert Graf wrote:
> 
> > I'm even more curious now, does anyone on the list regularly pronounce
> > that word these days as "jigawatt" (or more commonly perhaps jigabyte)?
> 
> Certainly not!

Howard, thank you.

I learned the metric prefixes back in the days when integrated circuits
were a new thing, and the pronounciation has always been "giga" with
both hard g's.

Frankly I thought when the movie character was refering to "jigawatts" that
they were creating a nonsense term for "lots and lots of power".
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