 | | Re: LEGO Mentioned in Business Week —Jasper Janssen
| | | | (...) Nonillion, i think. Decillion .... Duodecillion etc... (...) an Octillion _should_ be, in any rational system (Yes, that precludes the US from competing :) ) 10 ^ (6*8), instead of that awful 10 ^ (3 * (8 + 1) ) the American Way makes of it. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Mentioned in Business Week —Selçuk Göre
| | | | | Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36d063e3.55832412@l...et.com>... (...) Billion is in everyday use here. Since it is not practical to say that "I bought a house (or a ford escort) last week for a price of 8x10^9" or "my annual income is more than (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Mentioned in Business Week —Jasper Janssen
| | | | | (...) Yick. Get the turkish pund devalued already - you can easily just scrap 5 or 6 zeroes off the end, sounds like. :) Billion and trillion you'ree using here are the normal ones, right, with billion being a million million, and trillion being a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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