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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:29:26 -0800
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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.