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Holy crap, a [literal] tea party. By Blue.
Skewbrow:
^LOL. I thought that the very good approximation c=3x108 meters per second was proof that "God is metric", but now I'm having second thoughts :-D
celticgeek:
I prefer using the FFF system of units.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 18 Feb 2013, 06:15 ---When I was young, a billion was a million million, a trillion was a million million million, and so on; and some people still cling nostalgically to that definition. In that regime, a milliard (which tends to mean "a lot") was reserved for a thousand million.
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It depends on the language. In Scandinavian/German 1 000 000 000 is a Milliard (Miljard) and your "Billion" we use for Trillion (Biljon).
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 18 Feb 2013, 07:25 ---...and performs an irreversible conversion (at least I haven't figured out how to revert it). Arrggh.
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Ctrl + Z.
Then try it again. :wink:
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 18 Feb 2013, 08:13 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 18 Feb 2013, 06:15 ---When I was young, a billion was a million million, a trillion was a million million million, and so on; and some people still cling nostalgically to that definition. In that regime, a milliard (which tends to mean "a lot") was reserved for a thousand million.
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It depends on the language.
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But in English it also depends on the country!
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