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| (...) Silly British people and their ilk ( <-- unveiled jab!) think that a billion is not a thousand million, but rather a million million. In my humble opinion, it makes much more sense to say: 10 ^3 = thosand 10 ^6 = million 10 ^9 = billion 10^12 (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In article <slrn77djsq.g1h.matt...a.bu.edu>, Matthew Miller <lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com> writes (...) Sorry chum, but you have only grasped half of the English way of saying the numbers. You missed out the essential "and". We would say, "one (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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