Whilre reading http://opengraphics.gitk.com/open_graphics_spec.pdf...
As both a non-native american-english, and non-native english-english speaker, I find the use of the word 'billion' extremely confusing. While Webster's unabridged dictionary defines a billion as "milliard", which is defined as a "a thousand millions" (10^9), it also defines a billion as "in imitation of million a million" (10^12), further explaining that the french and american numerology systems adhere to the former, while the english system conforms to the latter (as does .fi and .se afaik). I am assuming, after this time spent hunting down which part of the world worship the 10^9 and which parts worship the 10^12 billion, and guessing by Timothy's location, that the intended magnitude is indeed 10^9. If it's not too much trouble, would it be possible to sneak a mention of this into the spec pdf? A (10^9) or (10^12) where apropriate, to clarify. :) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
