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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:35:11 +0100
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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)



-- 
Cheers, Carlos.