From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: decimal separator (international?
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:41:07 +0200
Date: 2004-10-29T14:41:07+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1dfhpvlq8nwnw.103sd9s1gmqm4$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: clt951$rg5$2@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk
On 29 Oct 2004 11:22:09 GMT, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield) writes:
>|> I would confuse almost all of my compatriots. Sometime in the
>|> 1970s, the Treasury announced it would start using American billions,
>|> because all the numbers it wanted to talk about were of that
>|> order. That infected the rest of society. Confusingly, the French used
>|> to use the American system (they invented it both).
>
> Gigapounds and teradollars seem perfectly acceptable solutions
> today, especially since computing has introduced these SI prefixes
> into common vernacular.
In computing Giga = 2**30, while in SI it is 10**9. [Well, if you have that
much, then 73 mio might be negligible... (:-))]
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2004-10-22 10:20 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-22 13:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-22 16:20 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-22 19:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-22 20:45 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-23 18:54 ` Chris Kaese
2004-10-25 10:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-29 9:52 ` Stefan L�rchner
2004-10-29 9:59 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-29 10:23 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 11:22 ` Markus Kuhn
2004-10-29 12:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2004-10-29 13:43 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 13:55 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 15:05 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 15:29 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-30 12:15 ` Binary prefixes in Google's calculator Markus Kuhn
2004-10-30 14:23 ` Binary prefixes and decimal separators " Björn Persson
2004-10-29 12:58 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 14:41 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-29 15:15 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 15:48 ` Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 16:31 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 19:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-11-01 10:14 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-11-01 18:53 ` Octal number system Andrew Nowicki
2004-11-01 21:47 ` Björn Persson
2004-11-02 1:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-29 16:09 ` decimal separator (international? Andreas Prilop
2004-10-30 9:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 14:21 ` Gee Pee (was: decimal separator (international?) Christoph Paeper
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