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From: "Matthias Paul" <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 12:24:52 +0200
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On 2001-04-07, Arkady V. Belousov wrote:

>non-SI naming - USA
>        10^9, billion

According to an old (ex-East-)German math book
(from 1965) this somewhat odd notation is (or was?)
also used in France and in the ex-Sovietunion, but not
in (most?) other countries.

>non-SI naming - German, Britany, France
>        10^12, billion

this one apparently not for France...

>        10^18, trillion
>        10^24, quadrillion
>        10^30, quintillion
>        10^36, sextillion

10^42, septillion
10^48, octillion ("Oktillion")
10^54, nonillion
10^60, decillion ("Dezillion")

Sometimes 10^15 is called a "Billiarde" (not to mix up with "Billion").

DP>    What Americans (and the media, god-bless their exaggerating
DP> hearts) call a billion is actually one thousand million.

Yep, my fault. I should have made it clearer that I was adopting to
US habits in my reply... Thanks for pointing this out.

 Matthias

PS. Regarding inches. In fact, the definition of an inch ("Zoll")
depended very much on country (or even locale). I donīt have
it at hands right now, but I have a book listing many historical
and now obsolete units from various countries. I seem to
remember having seen at least a dozend slightly different
definitions of an inch listed there even for European countries...
Well, no longer an issue today, but one more reason to switch
to SI and other international standards.

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