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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
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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.

Aligning common names with SI units may be the wave of the future.
Actuaslly, the past.