Re: Datasheet-flation?

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:15:07 -0800, john larkin wrote:

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:50:35 -0000 (UTC), antispam@fricas.org (Waldek
Hebisch) wrote:
 

john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:33:48 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
 

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

Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> wrote:
 

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

 
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.
 
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.

 
What is a thousand million in Spanish? Does it have a name? You could
call it a heap or a muddle or a toomany. Heap is best because H is
available... M and T are already used. J and L are a excellent letters
too... Jillion or Lump.

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Europe has miliard, that was already mentioned.  I would use it when
meaning 1.0e9, no chance for confusion.  For 1.0e12 I would use
"thousend of miliards", as that IMO is less confusing for Americans than
"billion".
 
 

We understand giga and tera. I hear people say gigabucks, 1e9 dollars.

That's what we all call a trillion. Coincidentally, a trillion dollars is
what's being added to the US national debt every month now IIRC. All those
phoney wars are very expensive!