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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:12:11 -0800
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 22:27:12 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

>john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:51:04 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
>> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>> 
>> >Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:21:56 +0000, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>> >> > 
>> >> >> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:22:22 +0000, Liz Tuddenham 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.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Try this:
>> >> >> https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/why-are-uk-and-
>> >> >> american-billions-different
>> >> > 
>> >> > It just repeats the myth but doesn't give a reference.
>> >> 
>> >> It's not a myth. UK and US billions have been harmonized at 1,000,000,000
>> >> for as long as I can remember now. As I recall, it was just done simply
>> >> via adoption rather than any Act of Parliament or Statutory Instrument.
>> >> IIRC, I think the pressure to do so came from the finance industry.
>> >
>> >Do you have a reference that isn't just heresay?
>> 
>> You can go to BBC.com and search for stories with "billions". They
>> obviously mean 1e9.
>
>That is not evidence that the two have been harmonised, it just shows
>that BBC journalists have adopted American terminology.
>
>To harmonise two systems requires formal discussion, decision and
>documentation and neither you nor I have found any evidence of that.

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