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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:35:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:29:26 -0800, john larkin wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:51:04 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
> 
>>Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:21:56 +0000, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>> 
>>> > Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>> > 
>>> >> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:22:22 +0000, Liz Tuddenham 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.
>>> >> 
>>> >> Try this:
>>> >> https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/why-are-uk-
and-
>>> >> american-billions-different
>>> > 
>>> > It just repeats the myth but doesn't give a reference.
>>> 
>>> It's not a myth. UK and US billions have been harmonized at
>>> 1,000,000,000 for as long as I can remember now. As I recall, it was
>>> just done simply via adoption rather than any Act of Parliament or
>>> Statutory Instrument. IIRC, I think the pressure to do so came from
>>> the finance industry.
>>
>>Do you have a reference that isn't just heresay?
> 
> You can go to BBC.com and search for stories with "billions". They
> obviously mean 1e9.

Yep, or Financial Times will be liberally sprinkled with it, too.