Ok, ok... am I the only spanish reading this?
Down here we say: 10^3 millar 10^6 mill�n 10^12 bill�n 10^18 trill�n It seems we don't have a word for 10^9 and 10^15. They are referred as "Mil millones" (a thousand millions) and "Mil billones" (a thousand billions). Anyway, it wold be a great number for a bank account ;-) >--- Original message --- > From: Beno�t Sibaud > Sent: jueves, 13 de septiembre de 2001 > To: [email protected] > Subj: billions and billions of stars.... was: Re: Another easter egg in > gnome-something... >> Since this starts to look like a language lesson here is the Swedish >> words - which also follows the Brittish way. BS> Ok, let's go for the French way. BS> 10^3 mille BS> 10^6 million BS> 10^9 milliard BS> 10^12 billion BS> 10^15 billiard (not sure about it) BS> 10^18 trillion BS> Looks like the British way (which it's strange because everybody knows BS> GB and France like to have different ways :) BS> ( you may want to look at http://www.mcn.net/~jimloy/billion.html ) BS> -- BS> Beno�t Sibaud -- Antonio Trueba mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
