BOB wrote:
> Many years ago  I was told that 1 BILLION in Great Britian was a 
> thousand times more then 1 BILLION in th US.
>
> British 1BILLION  =  1,000,000,000,000
> US 1 BILLION     =  1,000,000,000
>
>
>   
This was true  maybe  as late  as  1970s in Ireland  and UK.
But commonly the US Billion is now used in UK/Ireland. I don't remember 
when it changed.
Tera and Giga ought  to be less confusing
Except that RAM is binary addressed so is naturally only in Powers of 2 
chunks
so 1k in Apple II / IBM/BBC micro/Spectrum days was really 1024, not 1000.
A Gigabyte is really a US Billion 1,000,000,000
But a Gigabyte of RAM is 1024x1024x1024 = 1,073,741,824  (2 ^30)  people 
have tried to fix this by saying it should be a Gibibyte GiB. Sadly 
programmers and Marketing people won't listen and people then think they 
are cheated on their disk size
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte
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