On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:12:45AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > > > > Since this starts to look like a language lesson here is the Swedish > > words - which also follows the Brittish way. > > > > 10^3 tusen > > 10^6 miljon > > 10^9 miljard > > 10^12 biljard > > 10^15 triljard > > 10^12 biljon > 10^15 biljard > 10^18 triljon > 10^21 triljard > > unless swedish is less like the other scandinavian languages than > I though. A google search seems to prove me right. > Well, here in Norway my dictionary only have 10^3 tusen 10^6 million 10^9 milliard 10^12 billion 10^18 trillion 10^24 kvadrillion A bit more history: All of the above has French/Italian origin (says my dictionary), and the word "tusen" (thousand) originates from the norrøn/"old norse" word dúsund (the first d should be that th-like d), which probably comes from stor-hundre or kraft-hundre (big/strong-hundred)... -- Carl Lunde
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