Re: billions and billions of stars.... was: Re: Another easter egg in gnome-something...
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Daniele Becchi wrote:
> In Italy we have
> 10^3 mille (thousand)
> 10^6 milione (million)
> 10^9 miliardo
>
> and this is what I found on my italian dictionary
> bilione (billion)
> 10^9 in Italy, France and USA (and S.I.: thounand million)
No, the french use 'milliard' for this.
> 10^12 in UK and Germany
>
> trilione(trillion)
> 10^12 in France and USA
> 10^18 in S.I. (a million of billion)
>
> I think it's better to use the 10^x notation :)
> In the S.I. i suppose it works this way:
> thousand million billion
> \ / \ /
> billion trillion
>
> Antonio Trueba wrote:
>
> > Ok, ok... am I the only spanish reading this?
> >
> > 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). Anyway, it wold be a great number for a bank account ;-)
> >
> > >--- Original message ---
> >
> > > From: Benoît Sibaud
> > > Sent: jueves, 13 de septiembre de 2001
> > > To: debian-curiosa@lists.debian.org
> > > Subj: 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.
> > BS> Ok, let's go for the French way.
> >
> > BS> 10^3 mille
> > BS> 10^6 million
> > BS> 10^9 milliard
> > BS> 10^12 billion
> > BS> 10^15 billiard (not sure about it)
> > BS> 10^18 trillion
> >
> > BS> Looks like the British way (which it's strange because everybody knows
> > BS> GB and France like to have different ways :)
> >
> > BS> ( you may want to look at http://www.mcn.net/~jimloy/billion.html )
> >
> > BS> --
> > BS> Benoît Sibaud
> >
> > --
> > Antonio Trueba
> > mailto:atrueba@mailandnews.com
> >
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