Re: Datasheet-flation?

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:36:08 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 22:27:12 +0000, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
 

john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
 

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:51:04 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:21:56 +0000, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
 

Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
 

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:22:22 +0000, Liz Tuddenham 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.

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

 
Try this:
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/why-are-uk-

and-

american-billions-different

 
It just repeats the myth but doesn't give a reference.

 
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?

 
You can go to BBC.com and search for stories with "billions". They
obviously mean 1e9.

 
That is not evidence that the two have been harmonised, it just shows
that BBC journalists have adopted American terminology.
 
To harmonise two systems requires formal discussion, decision and
documentation and neither you nor I have found any evidence of that.

 
Fine believe whatever delusions you want to believe but it doesn't change
the fact that a UK billion today is one thousand million. Period.

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You have still produced no no proof for your original assertion that the
UK billion has been harmonised with the US billion, which was the point
in question.  Common misusage does not alter the facts.
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Gas is not stored in Gasometers.
UK pylons do not carry a current of 132,000 volts.
The "Morse Code" was not invented by Morse.
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...the fact that most people, including journalists at the BBC, get it
wrong doesn't make it right..

Who gets to decide "right"?

If I carry a check into a British bank and it says "one billion
pounds", how much will they pay me?