Jaroslav Lukesh wrote:
> 
> | Another question:
> | What is ETA? A basque terror organization? I don't found it in any
> printed
> | dictionary, also not in the big webster I bought in England. But you find
> | nearly all C keywords in it ;-)
> |
> |
> | eta: the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet -- H or n
> |                                                   '
> | Eta: basque terror organization in spain
> 
> E-stimated T-ime A-bout
> 
> it mean which time you should will go away from computer, but not so
> exactly, only estimated.

I also recall Elapsed Time Available.
Dunno what exatly it means...

IMHO ETA in general means how much you have to wait
until <something> happens.

> |      The other one is translating american billions (10^9) and trillions
> |      (10^12) to Billionen (10^12) and Trillionen (10^18). You got
> fantastic
> |      gross national product for the U.S.A. with values in the range of
> 10^10
> |      US $ per citicen.
> 
> Not only in germany, but in Czech too :)

But it's the americans fault ! :-)
For using those non-standard units !

David Balazic
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