Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

[Henrik Christian Grove <grove@sslug.dk>]

richard lyons <richard@the-place.net> writes:

> or, more clearly, 1 billion = (1 million)^2
>                   1 trillion = (1 million)^3
>                   etc.

That's how I prefer to remember it too.

> >    BTW isn't the whole europe (at least) using billion and trillion in
> > the same way as GB?
> 
> No. French, for example, uses un milliard = 10^9.

And so does danish:
10^3  tusind
10^6  million
10^9  milliard
10^12 billion
10^15 billiard
10^18 trillion
10^21 trilliard
10^24 quadrillion
10^27 quarilliard
10^30 quintillion
and so on... (although it's quite rare you need to name numbers of that size)

.Henrik

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Henrik Christian Grove
grove@sslug.dk
Student of Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen