Re: Using standardized SI prefixes
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:41:27PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:08 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > Mike Hommey wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:25:13PM +0000, Evgeni Golov
> > > <sargentd@die-welt.net> wrote:
> > >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:42:08 -0300 Paulo Marcondes wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > billion = 10^6 * 10^6 (IIRC, as used in Portugal - no jokes here!)
> > >>
> > >> =10^12 :)
> > >>
> > >> and Germany, France, former UdSSR, <insert your country here>
> > >
> > > Anywhere where milliard is 10^9, basically...
> >
> > Which includes England, according to Merriam-Webster [1].
> [...]
> > [1] http://www.m-w.com/mw/table/number.htm
>
> The American usage has been becoming more common in England (and the
> rest of Britain :-) over the past few years, particularly in science and
> finance related usage.
>
> I could be wrong, but I suspect most British people have never even
> heard of a milliard. It's usually referred to either as a billion or an
> "American billion".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
It all depends on space and time.
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