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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 07:56:39 -0800
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On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 16:00:36 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

>On 2024-12-02 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.
>
>er...
>
>10^9 = 1e9

Except when it ain't.