Re: Datasheet-flation?

On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 09:55:57 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:23:34 -0800, john larkin wrote:
 

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:56:17 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:22:01 -0800, john larkin wrote:
 

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:
 
[...]

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.

 
I'm not obliged to provide you with *anything*. The fact that I
informed you what a billion is today was a courtesy extended to you by
my infinite patience as a decent human being.

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Making a statement does not place you under any absolute obligation to
back it up with facts - but a failure to do so lays you open to the
suspicion that the statement was false.

 
Gosh, how can he live with the shame?

 
I'll manage. :) OTOH, "Liz" has exhibited extraordinary obtusity IRO this
very simple matter and will have to live with THAT stain on "her"
reputation.

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It's a terrible burden when I eventually get to the truth and find I was
right all along.   Don't worry, I'll get over it after a bit of retail
therapy.

Ski lift tickets are cheaper than therapists, and more fun.