tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 15 18:32:40 1996
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Re: billion
- From: Michiel Uitdehaag (Saito) <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: billion
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:33:40 +0900
>The official terminology is 'trillion' for a thousand billion,
>'quadrillion' for million billion, 'quintillion' for billion billion, etc.
>As it happens, due to the *highly* unwieldy nature of the British
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ hmmm, doesn't strike me as such
>system, and the prevalence of the American system (which I believe is
>used in the SI system), the British now exclusively use the same system
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If I'm not mistaken, the SI is a predominantly French
system and thus uses the european way of saying millions and billions.
But we dutch have a different word for a thousand million (i.e. a miljard).
I wouldn't know what the exact english way is, but French uses milliard too.
>as the Americans. Certainly all the newspapers do, and I have never seen
>anyone really use the old system - *way* too clunky. It might be simpler
>if we kept this list using the American version, since it is easier.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Does this mean you count like million, billion, trillion etc.? Is that all
there is too it? (I never bothered to find out.)
>After all, who regularly uses numbers over 'trillion', unless you're a
>scientist...or discussing the US budget deficit <wink>.
As scientist, I'd say you had better use notations like 10E10 for 10 american
billions.
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