On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:42:59 -0600, Steve Comstock 
<st...@trainersfriend.com> wrote:

>...
>> Twenty Three Quadrillion? Looks like Twenty Three Thousand 
>>Billion to me.
>
>Well, my understanding is that American English uses terms
>a little differently than the-rest-of-the-world English.
>...

It's those tricky English prefixes bi, tri, quad, etc.   :-)

Pat O'Keefe

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