Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types" Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:17:17 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 70 Message-ID: <86wmbtay42.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <87y0wjaysg.fsf@gmail.com> <20250407211216.00006238@yahoo.com> <20250408205345.0000497c@yahoo.com> <20250409165608.00006325@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:17:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b047b0586914e6e160c0016b929ac37f"; logging-data="1407645"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+XIFb6aa2zqKTbldlu0/wxDCOOFXoryUM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qn5IT0rwffWKOr+XS5a4GEV/3Zc= sha1:/PjwQ4DRd4OWw03bAmqFTR+7ZNk= Michael S writes: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 15:16:41 +0200 > David Brown wrote: > >> On 08/04/2025 19:53, Michael S wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:39:14 +0200 >>> David Brown wrote: >>> >>>> On 08/04/2025 12:54, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 10:29:13 +0200 >>>>> David Brown wibbled: >>>>> >>>>>> On 07/04/2025 21:29, Richard Heathfield wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>> Is not it "20 milliards" in British English? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes. The British use >>>>> >>>>> No we don't. >>>>> >>>>>>> 1 - one >>>>>>> 10 - ten >>>>>>> 100 - hundred >>>>>>> 1 000 - thousand >>>>>>> 10 000 - myriad >>>>>>> 100 000 - pool >>>>>>> 1 000 000 - million >>>>>>> 1 000 000 000 - milliard >>>>> >>>>> Is this a late april fool? >>>>> >>>>> Absolutely no one in britain says myriad for 10K , pool (wtf?) for >>>>> 100K or milliard apart from maybe history of science professor and >>>>> you'd probably be hard pressed to find many people who'd even >>>>> heard of them in that context. The only reason I knew milliard is >>>>> because I can speak (sort of) french and thats the french billion. >>>> >>>> "myriad" means 10,000, coming directly from the Greek. But the >>>> word is usually used to mean "a great many" or "more than you can >>>> count". (It's like the use of "40" in the Bible - I guess the >>>> ancient Greeks were better at counting than the ancient >>>> Canaanites.) >>> >>> In the Bible? >>> Or, may be, in imprecise translations of the Bible that confuse the >>> word ???? that means 10000 with remotely similar word ?????? that >>> means 40 ? >> >> No, I simply mean that the number 40 is used many times in the Bible >> to mean "a large number", rather than for a specific number. > > Can you give me few example of use of number 40 in the meaning "a > large number"? > > The very first appearance of 40 as as individual number (rather than > the part of 840) is in duration of the rain that caused flood (40 days > and 40 nights). I think, in this case it was meant literally. > In drier parts of Mesopotamia even 40 minutes of intense rain can cause > dangerous flood. The same in Negev desert. After 40 hours of intense > continuous rain very serious flood in lower places is pretty much > guaranteed. So, in opinion of people that live in such areas, 40 days > would be more than sufficient for The Flood of Noah. The author of the > text probably thought that he is overestimating a duration of the rain. It is my fervent hope that everyone involved in this fascinating discussion can find a more appropriate place to carry on the conversation than comp.lang.c.