RE: how much is a billion

[Alan -dot- Miller -at- prometric -dot- com]

Ok. This is a test, right? Or was I the only one who saw the error on the
last web page? (Hint: Generally, a sheet of paper is somewhat less than 2
inches thick (more like 2 mils).)

Al Miller
Chief Documentation Curmudgeon
Prometric, Inc.





"Swallow, William" <WSwallow -at- courion -dot- com>@lists.raycomm.com on 08/15/2001
10:05:07 AM

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Subject:  RE: how much is a billion

US response: http://www.aqd.nps.gov/grd/usgsnps/misc/billion.html
British response:
http://www.sunblock99.org.uk/sb99/people/JIreland/ji_bill.html
Interesting factoids:
http://www.punahou.edu/acad/sanders/geometrypages/GP10BillionEtc.html

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-----Original Message-----
Is it true that in some non-US countries, "one billion" means
1,000,000,000,000 - what people in the US call "one trillion"? I heard that
in some places "billion" means "one million times one million," rather than
one thousand times one million.

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