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Re: LEGO Mentioned in Business Week
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Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:11:58 GMT
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On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:56:25 GMT, "Selçuk <teyyareci>"
<sgore@nospam.superonline.com> wrote:
> 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"..:-) .
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 million
billion? (I think my larynx is hurting now. no more 'illions for me :)
> 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 !..)
So, you'd have to be a millionaire in USD 3 times over, before you're
a trillionaire in Turkey. Lot less trillionaires in Turkey than
millionaires in the US, I'd think :)
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> 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"..:-)
Oh, I don't know, I use it all the time. No, really! I'm not kidding,
really! </ironic>[1]
Jasper
[1] Yeah, yeah, I know: closing tag before opening. So I'm not good at
SGML. :)
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| 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 (...) (28 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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