William Ballard <40414.nospam@comcast.net> writes: > Would Brits feel that this is how we should count: > > 1,222,333,444,555,666,777,888 > ^thou > ^mill > ^thou mill > ^bill > ^thou bill > ^mill bill > ^trill For the west side of the pond, we go One Ten Hundred Thousand Million Billion Trillion The American national debt is the only thing that I can even think of measured in trillions, and is roughly the largest possible number of anything as far as Americans are concerned. I expect to see Trillion fall from use if we get more than two terms without a conservative inflating the debt at the expense of a generation that won't even be conceived until the late 3200s. -- Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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