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Re: Billion
- To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Subject: Re: Billion
- From: And Rosta <cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!ucleaar>
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1992 17:45:28 +0000
- In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:35:59 N.) <41534.9202130604@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk
- Reply-To: And Rosta <cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!ucleaar>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!LOJBAN>
Edmund Grimley-Evans <dfkihueg@DE.UNI-SB.RZ>
> You didn't really go and gloss a Lojban gismu with the translation "billion",
> did you? I mean that is really silly! In Britain billion usually means 1E12
> (except when referring to sums of money in currencies other than Italian
> lire, Yugoslav dinar,...) quite apart from the use of billion in other
> European languages...
I believe that billion is invariably used for 1,000,000,000. I never
hear of milliards. I may of course be continually misinterpreting
_billion_, but if I am then so are hundreds of thousands of others.