Sujet : Re: Datasheet-flation?
De : robin_listas (at) *nospam* es.invalid (Carlos E.R.)
Groupes : sci.electronics.designDate : 27. Nov 2024, 02:33:59
Autres entêtes
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On 2024-11-27 00:12, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 22:27:12 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:51:04 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
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Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:21:56 +0000, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
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Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:22:22 +0000, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
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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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Try this:
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/why-are-uk-and-
american-billions-different
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It just repeats the myth but doesn't give a reference.
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It's not a myth. UK and US billions have been harmonized at 1,000,000,000
for as long as I can remember now. As I recall, it was just done simply
via adoption rather than any Act of Parliament or Statutory Instrument.
IIRC, I think the pressure to do so came from the finance industry.
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Do you have a reference that isn't just heresay?
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You can go to BBC.com and search for stories with "billions". They
obviously mean 1e9.
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That is not evidence that the two have been harmonised, it just shows
that BBC journalists have adopted American terminology.
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To harmonise two systems requires formal discussion, decision and
documentation and neither you nor I have found any evidence of that.
Sometimes the people win.
Here a billion is still a million million.
-- Cheers, Carlos.
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