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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 07:48:33 -0800
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:30:34 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

>Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>> > Also be aware that the term "Billion" means a million million
>> > (Bi-million) in English but only a thousand million in American and
>> > French..
>> 
>> .. where it is a "milliard"
>
>The Milliard is English for a thousand million, which Americans call a
>"Billion".
>
>Logically the English runs:
>10^3   Thousand
>10^6   Million
>10^9   Milliard

No, that's a duck.


>10^12  Billion (bi-million)
>10^15  Billiard  (yes, really ! )
>10^18  Trillion (tri-million)
>10^18  Trilliard  ....etc.