William Ballard wrote:
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:18:16AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:57:39AM +0100, Graham wrote:No, the ex-GB billion is a billion. The US billion is really a thousand million (and is misnamed)It depends on whether you view the series as geometric or exponential.Just realized our way isn't strictly geometric either: it is geometric by tens up to one thousand, and then by thousands therafter. But you can argue that is sound because we write digits by ones up to ten and then by tens therafter.If you use the british definition, then 1,222,333,444,555 would be (let's see if I get it right):One billion, two hundred twenty two thousand million, three hundred thirty three million, four hundred forty four thousand, five hundred fifty-five.
In Dutch, we say (simplified by writing some number numerically): 1 biljoen 222 miljard 333 miljoen 444 duizend 555 We have: duizend = 10^3 miljoen = 10^6 miljard = 10^9 biljoen = 10^12 biljard = 10^15 triljoen = 10^18 triljard = 10^21 I don't know if there are Dutch words for larger numbers. -- "Codito ergo sum" Roel Schroeven