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Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:36:39 GMT
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Once upon a time, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Ben Laurie) wrote:
> Oh, and for the person who asked, a billion was a million million, and a
> trillion was a million billion.
That makes no sense--a trillion should be a billion billion. This is
the what happens when you don't let the US take care of things.
Steve
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| (...) Actually, although the British hold this view, Her Majesty's Government sold out and declared a billion to be a thousand million. As a result, I've boycotted the term :-) A trillion was even more radically devalued. Oh, and for the person who (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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