From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 12014d,7134e36a23e57417 X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa463d25bcbdaa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid12014d,gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: misc.metric-system,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: decimal separator (international? Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:41:07 +0200 Message-ID: <1dfhpvlq8nwnw.103sd9s1gmqm4$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <8h34o0dbc2h70ojvsst879nfkthko7suok@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de VoR9YY3NQjxfs+0j0AmqqArgbdmNz+YH/L4UH/Oi4G6+S4zSM= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com misc.metric-system:1407 comp.lang.ada:5851 Date: 2004-10-29T14:41:07+02:00 List-Id: 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