From: n04W44+mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn)
Subject: Re: decimal separator (international?
Date: 29 Oct 2004 11:22:09 GMT
Date: 2004-10-29T11:22:09+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <clt951$rg5$2@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: clt5no$3ne$1@scotsman.ed.ac.uk
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.
Markus
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Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain
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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 [this message]
2004-10-29 12:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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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