[jagrsw]

Not sure how the author of this entry on HN managed to change original title from

gigabytes per second

to

gigabits per siemens

:)

[HPsquared]

Staying with Physics, "Gb/S" is Gigabarns per Siemens. Some relation of electrical conductance with cross-sectional area.

The barn is a unit of cross-sectional area, based on the Uranium nucleus (area 1 barn). Uranium is pretty large in atomic terms; the name is from the idiom "couldn't hit the broad side of a barn".

[jagrsw]

And since 1/S = 1Ω, it'd be Gigabarnohm.

[robertlagrant]

Hence the old joke: how many Gigabarnohms does it take to start a circus?

Answer, of course, one million.

[__exit__]

Autocorrector issues + fast fingers to click on submit without double checking. Sorry for that.

Whoever fixed the title, thank you :D

[CodesInChaos]

> fixed the title

It still shows as "3Gb/S" for me, instead of "3GB/s"

[jeltz]

Isn't it easier to write 3GbΩ instead of 3Gb/S?

[Sebb767]

Probably auto-capitalization gone wrong. Or some very new code ;)

[MisterTea]

Genetic code most likely.