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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 19:06:28 +0100
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On 12/2/24 18:17, Phil Hobbs wrote:
> Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>> On 12/2/24 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.
>>>
>>
>> What??? Where?
>>
>> Jeroen Belleman
>>
> 
> Occasionally when I want 10 to the nine, I type 10E9.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Phil Hobbs
> 

So it's you! Shame!

Jeroen Belleman (Tongue in cheek)