Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 10:29:13 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wibbled:

On 07/04/2025 21:29, Richard Heathfield wrote:

Is not it "20 milliards" in British English?

 
Yes. The British use

No we don't.

 
1 - one
10 - ten
100 - hundred
1 000 - thousand
10 000 - myriad
100 000 - pool
1 000 000 - million
1 000 000 000 - milliard

Is this a late april fool?

Absolutely no one in britain says myriad for 10K , pool (wtf?) for 100K or
milliard apart from maybe history of science professor and you'd probably be
hard pressed to find many people who'd even heard of them in that context.
The only reason I knew milliard is because I can speak (sort of) french and
thats the french billion.

except for journalists, politicians, stockbrokers, and anyone else who
spends far too much time talking to Americans.

Pfft. The standard mathematical million-billion-trillion sequence has been
used in the UK since at least I was at school almost 40 years ago.

Where do you get your information from, The Disney Guide to the UK?