Fair point. When I was at school we used "billion" as long scale 10^12, but by the time I worked for Nasty Wetmonster Bank it was short scale.
I tend to just say "thousand million" :-) Roops On Sun, 2 Apr 2023, 00:34 Gary Weinhold, <weinh...@dkl.com> wrote: > This is been very interesting, but no one has mentioned billions and > trillions. When I was a young, I learned that the UK million was the same > as US, but billion was a million millions (not just a thousand million) and > a trillion was a million billions and so on. i guess It makes a difference > when you're talking about national debt (cue Senator Everett Dirksen). > Anyway, UK switched to the thousands- based 'illions in 1974. > > Gary Weinhold > Senior Application Architect > DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization > Phone:+1.613.523.5500 x216 > Email: weinh...@dkl.com > Visit us online at www.DKL.com > E-mail Notification: The information contained in this email and any > attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other > intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, > you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request > that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original > message from your mail system. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
