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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 18:08:23 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:50:35 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:33:48 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
>> <robin_listas@es.invalid> 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.
>> 
>> What is a thousand million in Spanish? Does it have a name? You could
>> call it a heap or a muddle or a toomany. Heap is best because H is
>> available... M and T are already used. J and L are a excellent letters
>> too... Jillion or Lump.
> 
> Europe has miliard, that was already mentioned.  I would use it when
> meaning 1.0e9, no chance for confusion.  For 1.0e12 I would use
> "thousend of miliards", as that IMO is less confusing for Americans than
> "billion".

Big numbers came in handy in Germany in the 1920s when banknote values 
became very, very silly indeed:

https://images.app.goo.gl/dgiwRx1H6Wm3TczTA