On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 02:01, Robert Rolf wrote:
> Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> y suggest something like (uA/A), which adds some
> > information that ppm doesn't have. And the specific problem with ppb is
> > that "billion" is quite an ambiguous expression.
> 
> HUH? million=1E6, billion=1E9, trillion=1E12,
> gazillion1E12E12 <G>? dollars of US debt.
> What is ambiguous about billion? Or do other countries have a
> different value?
> Robert

The fact that "billion" is not the same in all the world. In North
America billion is 10e9. In Britain (and many other places) billion is
10e12.

Google for "billion definition", first hit. TTYL
 
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