Investment Advisers Act of 1940. The Investment Advisers Act of 1940, codified at 15 U.S.C. Â§ 80b-1 through 15 U.S.C. Â§ 80b-21, is a United States federal law that was created to monitor and regulate the activities of investment advisers (also spelled advisors) as defined by the law.
A gigabyte (GB) is a measure of computer data storage capacity that is roughly equivalent to 1 billion bytes. A gigabyte is two to the 30th power or 1,073,741,824 in decimal notation. The term is pronounced with two hard Gs. The prefix giga comes from a Greek word meaning giant.
A gigabyte is 2 to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 bytes. It can be estimated as 10 to the 9th power, or one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. A gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes and precedes the terabyte unit of measurement. Hard drive sizes are typically measured in gigabytes, such as a 160GB or 250GB drive. The term gigabyte is often often abbreviated as simply a gig in speech. The prefix giga comes from the Greek word gigas, meaning giant. For a list of all the different units of measurements, view this Help Center article.