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Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 16:02:44 -0600
From: Thomas Webb <tawebb AT earthlink DOT net>
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Or.. maybe a Giggle..

Mark at Cross+Road's wrote:
> 
>     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.

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