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Re: Fw: Space Shuttle Costs
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:36:38 GMT
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Ricardo Lagos <Ricardo.Lagos@eng.Sun#nospam#.COM>
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Please!! .. can we put this discussion to rest...
.. we all understand now!! 1 billio in the US is not the same as 1 billion in
the UK and other parts of the world ..
-- Ricardo
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:59:57 +0000
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> From: Peter Hesketh <pbh@phesk.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Fw: Space Shuttle Costs
>
> In article <0a8801be2862$0ef0a2f0$f322bece@trowton.audionet.com>, Tom
> Rowton <trowton@broadcast.com> writes
> > Would someone please enlighten those of us who clearly do not understand the
> > number system that the rest of the world uses, what the difference is
> > between 5,000,000,000 and 5 Billion? Or is the US the only country that
> > recognises "billion" as a valid number? How about trillion?
> >
> > I am seriously interested - this is not a thinly veiled jab. I would really
> > like to know, so hold the flamethrowers and let the information flow.
>
> Traditionally in England a billion is 1,000,000,000,000, and what an
> American calls a billion is known as a thousand million. However,
> because of the internationalisation of trade, both meanings are
> encountered in England today, despite valiant efforts to retain the
> tradition.
>
> ISTR that the Daily Telegraph (one of the largest circulation UK
> broadsheets owned, I think, by a Canadian) decided to switch from the
> English to the American usage a few years ago. I can't remember if they
> stuck to it.
>
> --
> Regards - Peter Hesketh, Mynyddbach, Mon.
> Forty reasons why a dog is better than a woman: number 13
> "Anyone can get a good-looking dog."
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