With some commentators, billion and million seem to be interchangeable. :-)
Brian of SpotMog On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Martyn J Culling < [email protected]> wrote: > Which is why the teaching of the slide rule was a great advantage since > you, > the operator, had to put the right order of ten in place. > > Calculators do not help one form a view of the expected answer. > > rgds Martyn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Owen Jenkins [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 22 June 2012 09:48 > To: mogtalk2 > Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Diff Temp > > snip... > > As one who marks student papers, the frequency of order of magnitude errors > is greater with the metric system than with USC or Imperial, since the last > two make them think about the value of the answer. In other words, the main > problem with the metric system is that the answers tend to look the same, > so > it's easy to be out by an order of magnitude or two and not notice. > > Cheers, > Owen. > ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
