There is also the group of Virtucons  who use gagillion, fafillion, shabolubalu 
million illion yillion, when describing lasers.

I believe this was first described in a movie with Mr. Myers.

73 de W4AS

On Apr 22, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Mark Hammond N8MH wrote:

> I think we should all use hexidecimal.  Or binary :) 
> 
> Mark N8MH
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>> In the Netherlands (and most of Europe), you would write one thousand
>> million watts as 1.000 megawatts.
>> 
>> The decimal indicator in Europe is a comma.
>> For example,
>> 1,5 means one and a half
>> 1.000.000 means one million.
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