A gigabyte is approximately a million bytes, but it is exactly 2^x bytes. What is x, and how many bytes is it exactly.

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A gigabyte is exactly one million bytes - 10⁹. In some computer and information technologies it is also used to denote

1,073,741,824 (1024³ or 2³⁰) bytes.