Re: billions and billions of stars.... was: Re: Another easter egg in gnome-something...

[Luis Mayoral <lmayoral@andago.com>]

Antonio Trueba said:

> Ok, ok... am I the only spanish reading this?

Nope ;-)

> Down here we say:
> 
> 10^3      millar
> 10^6      millón
> 10^12     billón
> 10^18     trillón
> 
> It seems we don't have a word for 10^9 and 10^15. They are referred as
> "Mil millones" (a thousand millions) and "Mil billones" (a thousand
> billions).

You're wrong ;). We have words for 10^9 and 19^15.
10^9    millardo  (a thousand millions)
10^15   billardo  (a thousand billions)

> Anyway, it would be a great number for a bank account ;-)

Sure ;-)

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