On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:28:41PM +0000, Henrik Olsen wrote:
> US: million 10^6, billion 10^9, trillion 10^12 ...
>
> Non-US: million 10^6, milliard 10^9, billion 10^12,
> billiard 10^15, trillion 10^18 ...
Actually I think most UK people would use the US definitions
now-a-days (except maybe *really* old people ;-)
I certainly would...
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Nick Craig-Wood
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