Re: Another easter egg in gnome-something...
"Martin_J Carter" <Martin.J.Carter@nottingham.ac.uk> writes:
> Quoth Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu> 2001-09-12 18:19:30:
>
> Nope, a real trillion is 10^18. Not sure what 10^15 is, as
> I'm away from my dictionaries .... Any more literate Brits
> out there?
It's a billiard. For an exhaustive answer search for it
on http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/culture.htm (way down).
Summary: the French messed it up.
Jürgen
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Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/
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