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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: Re: [off-topic] shutting down
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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:17:23 +0200
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Preston wrote:
>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.

The world is alot larger than Great Brittain and France ;-) You know, in
tests American kids are, at average, the worst at drawing a map of the
world (IIRC Japanese kids are the best).
I don't know much about these things, but I do know that 10^9 is called
"miljard" here in Sweden, 10^6 = "miljon" and 10^12 = "biljard".
Besides, no country uses SI units for everything, Celsius ("version 2.0")
is much easier for everyday use. And the EU changed how we should write
dates here in Sweden, and now the way we used to do it has become the ISO
standard. I can never figure out what 01-02-03 means on food, according to
the EU it will last for 2 more years (well not quite), but according to ISO
(aka. "Japanese") it experied last year.
//Bernie