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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:01:06 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 05:02:11 -0700, Don Y wrote:

> On 11/24/2024 4:30 AM, 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".
> 
> Ah!  I thought it was *french*!

It's German actually. And the English and American "billion" was 
harmonised many years ago at one thousand million so there's no confusion.

> 
>> Logically the English runs:
>> 10^3   Thousand 10^6   Million 10^9   Milliard 10^12  Billion
>> (bi-million)
>> 10^15  Billiard  (yes, really ! )
>> 10^18  Trillion (tri-million)
>> 10^18  Trilliard  ....etc.
>> 
>>