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Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 02:14:13 GMT
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stephen p spackman <stephen@acmAVOIDSPAM.org>
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Nick Taylor wrote:
> 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.
I have a simple, logical, consistent and *standard* proposal that I
think addresses all possible confusion in the matter:
number name
1e0 illion
1e3 Killion
1e6 Million
1e9 Gillion
1e12 Tillion
1e15 Pillion
1e18 Exillion (well, *almost* standard)
1e21 Yillion
1e24 Zillion
(did I get them right?)
So 5 Gillion bux is the kwantitee in kweschun.
stephen "language should be more like LEGO" spackman
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Lessee.. from memory: Kilo mega giga tera peta exa Yotta Zetta I think you did. Took me a few seconds to figure it out, tho :) (...) How bout 5 Giga-bucks? Much more SF :) Jasper (26 years ago, 17-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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