Re: Another easter egg in gnome-something...
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:19:30PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > American (including Unix) = 10^9
> > British = 10^12
>
> What the heck do the British call 10^9?
A thousand million, IIRC.
> And further more, is 10^15 a
> trillion (in the British system)?
Nope. British trillion is 10^18. 10^15 is (again, IIRC) a thousand
billion.
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