Re: Datasheet-flation?

On 2024-11-29 18:32, Jeroen Belleman wrote:

On 11/29/24 15:33, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2024-11-29 15:22, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> wrote:
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On 2024-11-24, Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:

Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
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the English and American "billion" was
harmonised many years ago at one thousand million so there's no confusion.

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Can you give a reference for that?  I haven't found one.

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https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04440/ SN04440.pdf

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Thank you, that clarifies the situation.  The English Billion still
exists but in 1957 British Ministers were told to use the American
meaning as it was considered "International" by the then Prime Minister.
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Obviously it cannot be completely international if there are still
countries using it to mean Bi-million nowadays.

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And languages. Spanish, in Spain at least, a billion is a million million. So one has to be careful when translating.
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 All this abundantly demonstrates that we're better off using the
metric prefixes instead. It'll be next to impossible to make
politicians and finance accept that though...

Right!
Or notations like 5*10^9  or 5E9 (calculators did this. Do they still do? 5E9 is very simple)
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Cheers, Carlos.