Date:	Sun, 8 Apr 2001 06:07:32 +1000 (EST)
From:	DONALD PEDDER <jims_son AT jedi DOT apana DOT org DOT au>
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On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:

>      Does this mean in German used American's "billion" instead English'es
> "milliard" for 10^9? For us billion mean 10^15 (AFAIR).

   I know we're heading O/T, but it's nice to see that SOME people know
that 1,000,000,000 isn't really a billion. :-)

   In fact Arkady, it's 10^12 - 1,000,000,000,000 (what an American would
call a trillion). After one thousand, each new number-name is the square
of the one before. i.e. million 10^6, billion 10^12, trillion 10^24,
etc. (although there are some special ones - like a centillion, which is
one hundred zeroes).
   What Americans (and the media, god-bless their exaggerating
hearts) call a billion is actually one thousand million.


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