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What is a Billion? (Was: Space Shuttle Costs)
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 02:13:10 GMT
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Das Menon <dmenon@pacific.net.*saynotospam*sg>
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Hello Everyone,
In India, with a counting system much older than anyone else, people count
as follows:
English Indian
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100,000 (One Hundred Thousand) 1,00,000 (One Lakh)
1,000,000 (One Million) 10,00,000 (Ten Lakh)
10,000,000 (Ten Million) 100,00,000 (One Crore)
These terms (Lakh, Crore) are actively used in India daily. In fact the
majority of people (say 700 Million) will not know what a million (or a
billion) is. In India we do not have millioners we have either "Lakhsha
Prabhu" (Lord of Lakh[s]) or "Crore Pathi" (Owner of Crore[s]). Lakh and
Crore (in Indian vernacular) is the same for units or larger.
By the way, 1 Billion (1,000,000,000) can be looked in another way:
If you spent money at the rate of $1 per second, after 30 years you will
still have 50 Million (50,000,000) left!
Regards...Das
At 02:30 PM 12/15/98 -0700, you wrote:
> 5 thousand millions.
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> Jose-Luis Fauste
> Senior Engineer
> Arizona Public Service
> (602) 393-5391
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> From: Andy Franks[SMTP:franksa@hartwick.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 12:52 PM
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: RE: Space Shuttle Costs
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> Okay...now I'm curious...what is 5,000,000,000 in non-american?
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> Andy
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| 5 thousand millions. Jose-Luis Fauste Senior Engineer Arizona Public Service (602) 393-5391 ---...--- From: Andy Franks[SMTP:franksa@...twick.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 12:52 PM To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com Subject: RE: Space Shuttle (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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