There is quite a bit of confusion in the industry. In computer science, most people loosely consider 1 Gb as 2^30=1073741824 bytes, while the prefix Giga actually means 10^9, or 1,000,000,000.
When we buy a hard disk, we are told (correctly) that it holds 1 Gb. Manufacturers base it on the mathematical definition of Giga and give you 10^9 bytes (less than 1073741824=1Gibibyte, or 1 GiB). This is standard practice in the disk drive industry. For example, a Windows 7 will show a 3 tera byte external disk as having 2.72 TB, or 3,000,557,891 byes, in which case it is actually assuming a TB to mean 2^40 byes (instead of TiB). That's where confusion lies.
Can something be done about it? Yes, it has been done since 2007. The less well-known, but official quantity for 1073741824 bytes is one GiB, proposed by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), adopted by IEEE, EU, and NIST. Similarly, 1 TiB means 2^40=1,099,511,627,776 bytes. The prefixes have been replaced by bi (for binary), so Kibibyte, Mebibyte, Gibibyte, Tebibyte, etc.are used to represent 2^10, 2^20, 2^30, 2^40 bytes. Unfortunately I have yet to see this widely being used, or even known!
The terms dominant and recessive describe the inheritance patterns of certain traits. ... For a recessive allele to produce a recessive phenotype, the individual must have two copies, one from each parent. An individual with one dominant and one recessive allele for a gene will have the dominant phenotype.
During exponential growth the rate of growth accelerates according the the number in the exponent of the base, which can of course vary depending on circumstance.
