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From: "Mark at Cross+Road's" <mark1 AT mich DOT com>
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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 17:53:02 +0400
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Subject: Re: [off-topic] shutting down
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    I thought that 100 zeroe's was a "google"?
        Mark



On 2001-04-08 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
   >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.