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Is it a Gigawatt or a Jigawatt?
We all know what Doc Brown said in the first movie. “I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need”. But he pronounced gigawatts as if it were spelled with a “j”, as in jigawatts (or jigowatts). Being an electrical engineer, I had heard the prefix “Giga” pronounced many times…