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Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:29:14 GMT
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Jonathan Woodward <{woodward@guesswork.com}NoSpam{}>
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At 01:51 PM 12/15/98 -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Nick Taylor wrote:
> > Dear Mr. Rawding - - -
> > To _most_ speakers of English 'five billion' does _not_ equal
> > 5,000,000,000.
> 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.
Populations, in thousands:
UK 58,649
Australia 18,520
New Zealand 3,796
Canada 30,563
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111,528
US 274,028
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274,028
(Figures from "http://www.popin.org/pop1998/".)
-Unless I missed 160 million speakers of British English, I don't
think I need to comment further with regards to population. With regards
to nomenclature:
Number US Word UK Word
1,000 thousand thousand
1,000,000 million million
1,000,000,000 billion milliard or "thousand million"
1,000,000,000,000 trillion billion
1,000,000,000,000,000 quadrillion "thousand billion"
etc.
-Did I get that right?
-JW
Jonathan Woodward woodward@guesswork.com http://www.io.com/~woodward/
Removing attributions is a sin.
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Message has 4 Replies:
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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)
| | | RE: Space Shuttle Costs
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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)
| | | Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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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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| | Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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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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