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Subject:Large numbers, Brit and Yank style From:Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG> Date:Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:05:01 +0100
Hello Stan,
* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von Stan Brown an All am 13.01.96
SB> From: Stan Brown <stbrown -at- nacs -dot- net>
SB> In older British usage, a billion was sometimes a million
SB> million
SB> rather than a thousand million.
this is why BBC Worldservice uses "1.000 million" only. BTW there is a BBC
Worldservice Style Guide you can buy at the BBC Worldservce Shop in Bush
House. I browsed through it two years ago when I was there.
Greetings from Germany,
Alexander
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