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IMHO, the world (GBF) ought to accept 10^9=billion!
-or- if continuing with an illogical/cumbersome
naming convention - changing 10^-9 
to "milli-micro" instead of calling it nano.

Logic and consistency are sometimes mutually exclusive 
when passing thru national borders.
(inch vs metric exemplifies the NIH mentality)
Pres
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At 12:24 PM 4/8/01 +0200, you wrote:
>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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