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| (...) one (...) UMMMMM....you mean 5 billion? (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Nick, Cool. I can learn something new everyday. I didnt mean to offend any brits. "Ugly American?" Ouch. Easy Nick. BTW, we won the war : ) Dave. (...) the (...) smileys...] (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Dear Mr. Rawding - - - To _most_ speakers of English 'five billion' does _not_ equal 5,000,000,000. Comments such as yours are what has given rise to the "Ugly American" syndrome. - - - Nick - - - (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Really, just curious, what does it mean? I better watch out. My unwordliness is showing. :) -Paul (pspeed@augustschell.com) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Can you point out some statistics that support this - I know that the British hold this view, but I wonder about Canadians, Aussies, Indians, etc. (...) Hey, it's our shuttle. and, BTW, 'Ugly American' syndrome is much more than simple word (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Nick, Relax. I think this tongue-in-cheek comment was meant as a friendly joke. Carl Schaefer "Ugly American" (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) A shining example of this is the market capitalization value for a company traded on the NYSE. If you look this up (online, newspaper, etc), you will find it is expressed in millions. AOL, for example, has a market cap. of $42,149.43 (mil) . - (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Actually, although the British hold this view, Her Majesty's Government sold out and declared a billion to be a thousand million. As a result, I've boycotted the term :-) A trillion was even more radically devalued. Oh, and for the person who (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Populations, in thousands: UK 58,649 Australia 18,520 New Zealand 3,796 Canada 30,563 ------- 111,528 US 274,028 ------- 274,028 (Figures from "(URL) -Unless I missed 160 million speakers of British English, I don't think I need to comment (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) All this proves is that the NYSE recognizes that there are some poor, misguided people buying stocks in America. :-> (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| To be honest I still have no idea what anyone is talking about, but: If English is the unofficial language of the Internet, then perhaps the unofficial flavor of English should be American. After all, they invented the Internet. --Denz (a Saudi) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Why isn't a trillion a million million? :) Tim ObLego: um... (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I really don't want to get involved in this rather quirky debate, but there are 982,223 thousand people in India (same source), the majority of whom speak English in the UK style in addition to their own regional dialects. I've always wondered how (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Hang on The population of the world is ~ 4 Billion (uh,oh there's another argument looming), No matter how you define billion your figures fall way short, Sure not all (most) of the world is english speaking (but we have already had anecdotal (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) A U.S billion yes, not the same in all countries. A UK Billion is a million million, where as a US billion is a thousand million. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| We (Canadians) are with the Ugly Americans on this one... sorry we don't count in the UK-world total. 5 billion = 5 000 000 000 in the Great White North. LINC (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In article <F40zJI.Gqr@lugnet.com>, Denzel Beachnut <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes (...) Therefore as Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, web pages should use British English. (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I have a simple, logical, consistent and *standard* proposal that I think addresses all possible confusion in the matter: number name 1e0 illion 1e3 Killion 1e6 Million 1e9 Gillion 1e12 Tillion 1e15 Pillion 1e18 Exillion (well, *almost* (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I apologize to all (and to David Rawding) for having started this off topic thread. - - - Nick - - - (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Well, getting back to the topic of Space shuttles, Endeavour has just landed. You can find currently find it in Florida. -Vadim PS. Very sorry :) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Well, at least the Americans are moving towards the metric system now. Inch by inch... :) //Harri Manni - 070-5850517 -o) -"Do not take life too seriously.You will never get out alive." /\\ 11.00100100001111110...0011010011 _\_V (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) India? China? We're not just talking _first_ language here... Jasper (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Won't help....I'm certain that LEGO bricks are not convenient multiples of metric units.... (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) That makes no sense--a trillion should be a billion billion. This is the what happens when you don't let the US take care of things. Steve (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I guess it depends on how you define "convenient" :-). LEGO was, after all, founded in Denmark and they use the metric system there afaik. From (URL) : 4.9152 cm3 is the volume of an 8-stud LEGO brick. It measures 9.6 x 32 x 16 mm. /Christer (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Actually No! * The Packet Switching technology that underlies the Internet was developed at the National Physics Laboratory in England. * The HyperText Transfer Protocol that underlies the World Wide Web was invented by an Englishman at CERN (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Fred Read writes: > 'Nuff Said? Yes. Please stop posting on this off-topic topic, otherwise I will be forced to moderate the mailing list. (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Lessee.. from memory: Kilo mega giga tera peta exa Yotta Zetta I think you did. Took me a few seconds to figure it out, tho :) (...) How bout 5 Giga-bucks? Much more SF :) Jasper (26 years ago, 17-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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