Subject:
|
Re: LEGO Mentioned in Business Week
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.fun
|
Date:
|
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:56:25 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
507 times
|
| |
|
|
Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36d063e3.55832412@lugnet.com>...
>
> Anyway, that's all water under the bridge. Just remember: NEVER use
> billion or higher, instead, use thousand million and million million,
> to avoid confusion. That's what you've saddled us with. :)
>
> Jasper
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 4x10^9 Turkish liras"..:-) .
Trillion also used in everyday language when talking about even small
company level investments and about rich people, as in form of
"trillionaire", since virtually every Turkish citizen are already
"millionaires"..:-) (1 million Turkish Liras equals to approx. 3 USD !..)
And we use even katrillion, when talking about amounts like national budget
and the like. As you see, those numbers are not used only by geeks for
scientific geeks, and I can't imagine a common people using words like "a
times ten to b"..:-)
Selçuk
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: LEGO Mentioned in Business Week
|
| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: LEGO Mentioned in Business Week
|
| (...) 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. (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
25 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
