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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 15:24:23 +0100
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On 12/2/24 15:00, john larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:35:11 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-11-29 18:32, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>> On 11/29/24 15:33, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>> On 2024-11-29 15:22, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>>> Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2024-11-24, Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>> the English and American "billion" was
>>>>>>>> harmonised many years ago at one thousand million so there's no
>>>>>>>> confusion.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you give a reference for that?  I haven't found one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04440/
>>>>>> SN04440.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you, that clarifies the situation.  The English Billion still
>>>>> exists but in 1957 British Ministers were told to use the American
>>>>> meaning as it was considered "International" by the then Prime Minister.
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously it cannot be completely international if there are still
>>>>> countries using it to mean Bi-million nowadays.
>>>>
>>>> And languages. Spanish, in Spain at least, a billion is a million
>>>> million. So one has to be careful when translating.
>>>>
>>>
>>> All this abundantly demonstrates that we're better off using the
>>> metric prefixes instead. It'll be next to impossible to make
>>> politicians and finance accept that though...
>>
>> Right!
>>
>> Or notations like 5*10^9  or 5E9 (calculators did this. Do they still
>> do? 5E9 is very simple)
> 
> 10^9 = 1e10 in some places.
> 

What??? Where?

Jeroen Belleman