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RE: Space Shuttle Costs
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:26:44 GMT
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Eric Eilebrecht <ERICEIL@saynotospamMICROSOFT.COM>
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I bet there are a lot more than 160 million people who speak English as a
second language....but then that really has nothing to do with Lego, does
it?
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Woodward [mailto:woodward@guesswork.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 12:29 PM
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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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