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OT: Billions (was Re: Space Shuttle Costs)
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:27:48 GMT
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Brian Stormont <brian@projo.comNOMORESPAM>
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I ran across this fairly comprehensive description of the meaning of the
word billion, for those that care:
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/7/7-451.html
I think any potential questions related to this off-topic topic are
answered there.
-brian
"Fauste, Jose L(Z35080)" wrote:
> This is true not only for English but for Spanish as well. In Spain 1
> billion = 10 to the 12th, and I believe this is true in France as
> well... probably the same for all European countries.
>
> In the US, 1 billion = one thousand millions (10 to the 9th)
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> Spain (and probably rest of Europe): 1 billion = one million millions
> (10 to the 12th)
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| This is true not only for English but for Spanish as well. In Spain 1 billion = 10 to the 12th, and I believe this is true in France as well... probably the same for all European countries. In the US, 1 billion = one thousand millions (10 to the (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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