"Trei, Peter" wrote: > [Moderator's note: It wasn't a direct quote, and I generally assume > reporters misquote people anyway. Also, note that the general > confusion because the UK uses "thousand million" for the US "billion" > makes the whole thing even less clearly the expert and not the > reporter. --Perry]
Actually, to my perpetual dismay, we are now supposed to use a billion in the US sense (it used to mean a million million). As a result, I don't use the word at all, since it predictably has become ambiguous in the UK. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]