On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:19:30PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > American (including Unix) = 10^9 > > British = 10^12 > > What the heck do the British call 10^9?
A thousand million, IIRC. > And further more, is 10^15 a > trillion (in the British system)? Nope. British trillion is 10^18. 10^15 is (again, IIRC) a thousand billion. -- With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. - Alan Cox "To prevent unauthorized reading..." - Adobe eBook reader license
