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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 06:00:11 -0800
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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.