Daniele Becchi wrote: > and this is what I found on my italian dictionary > bilione (billion) > 10^9 in Italy, France and USA (and S.I.: thounand million) > 10^12 in UK and Germany
(I haven't really been following this thread so maybe this has been said already.) The UK adopted the "American" system (billion=10^9) a long long time ago (late 70s?). For example my (British English) dictionary says: billion 1 000 000 000, or Br dated 1 000 000 000 000 The UK Government and the BBC both use billion=10^9, which means pretty much everyone must. -- Jim Farrand, ML Group, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science, http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~farrand University of Bristol, tel: +44-(0)117-954-5254 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UB, UK
