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Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:28:08 GMT
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Medical Informatics Consulting <medinfo@aros.SPAMLESSnet>
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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 this babble of terms originated, but just though
it easier to refer to "x" millions or use scientific notation to remove
ambiguity.
Just some thought,
Matt
Matt Sailors
medinfo@aros.net
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Jonathan Woodward wrote:
> 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
> -------
> 111,528
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> US 274,028
> -------
> 274,028
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> (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:
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> 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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| (...) 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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