Hi,

I think the phrase "all over the world" is not precise. For instance, here
in Hungary, a billion is also 10^12. The number 10^9 is called here
"milliard" (I do not know whether this is general). 10^24 is quadrillion,
10^30 is quintillion, etc. In Hungary, in 1946 there was the hugest money
inflation of the world, so there existed such money note as xxx
quadrillion...

Imre


On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Wagner Lipnharski wrote:

> Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >
> > One billion is a thousand million in the US and a million million in the
> > UK.
> >
> > Harold
>
>
> So, you mean that all over the world, is this:
>
> (1) Million        10^6
> (2) Billion (bi)   10^9
> (3) Trillion (tri) 10^12
> (4) QuaWhat? Quallion? hehe
>
> and in United Kingdom is:
>
> (1)   Million           10^6
> (1.5) Thousand Millions 10^9
> (2)   Billion           10^12
> (2.5) Thousand Billions 10^15
> (3)   Trillion          10^18
> and so on?
>
> I need to take care when writing my checks to you guys
> in UK... about the billions I mean.
>
> Somebody said that it is easy not to see the dot "."
> in the middle of a resistor value, as 4.7k Ohms, instead
> the common use of 4k7, probably this is why in portuguese
> we use "comma" instead the "dot", for the decimal reference,
> as 4,7k Ohms, or 2,5cm. Yes, our thousand separators is
> the... "dot".  2.512,25 means two thousand, five hundred...
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