Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 06:07:32 +1000 (EST) From: DONALD PEDDER To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [off-topic] shutting down In-Reply-To: <2.07b7.4VMF.GBFQFL@belous.munic.msk.su> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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. dp.