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 May 09, 2008 @ 19:36:18 | #110 | raditz8526
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Join Date: Mar 2006 | alexkidd said: i don't see the problem,
especially in terms of the thousand million thing.
its important for quantifications to be standardised, considering how small technology is making the world.
its why america should pick up the metric system fully 
its a nutural evolution of language, no biggie, the concept of keeping a language pure from outside influences is laughable, its healthy in my opinion.
Wouldn't a million million be a trillion and not a billion? |   | |
| May 09, 2008 @ 19:39:25 | #115 | jonnythan
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Join Date: Aug 2005 | raditz8526 said:
Wouldn't a million million be a trillion and not a billion?
In the British "long scale,":
1,000,000 = one million
1,000,000,000 = one thousand million
1,000,000,000,000 = one billion
1,000,000,000,000,000 = one thousand billion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = one trillion
These are:
one million
one billion
one trillion
one quadrillion
one quintillion
On our "short scale"
In 1974, the British government officially abandoned the long scale, so, in ma** media and currency, their "billion" is the same as ours.
JMO is being silly and xenophobic.
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| May 09, 2008 @ 19:41:35 | #117 | raditz8526
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Join Date: Mar 2006 | jonnythan said:
In the British "long scale,":
1,000,000 = one million
1,000,000,000 = one thousand million
1,000,000,000,000 = one billion
1,000,000,000,000,000 = one thousand billion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = one trillion
These are:
one million
one billion
one trillion
one quadrillion
one quintillion
On our "short scale"
In 1974, the British government officially abandoned the long scale, so, in ma** media and currency, their "billion" is the same as ours.
JMO is being silly and xenophobic.
This happened in 1974 and he's complaining about it now? A little late on this rant, eh? lol | | | |
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