Re: billions and billions of stars.... was: Re: Another easter egg in gnome-something...
> Since this starts to look like a language lesson here is the Swedish
> words - which also follows the Brittish way.
Ok, let's go for the French way.
10^3 mille
10^6 million
10^9 milliard
10^12 billion
10^15 billiard (not sure about it)
10^18 trillion
Looks like the British way (which it's strange because everybody knows
GB and France like to have different ways :)
( you may want to look at http://www.mcn.net/~jimloy/billion.html )
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Benoît Sibaud
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