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 > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: "i8cvs" <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:12:16 > To: Sil - ZL2CIA<[email protected]>; Idle-Tyme<[email protected]> > Cc: AMSAT-BB<[email protected]> > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Arecibo on 432 MHz Moon Bounce (some calculations) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sil - ZL2CIA" <[email protected]> > To: "Idle-Tyme" <[email protected]> > Cc: "i8cvs" <[email protected]>; "AMSAT-BB" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:14 PM > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Arecibo on 432 MHz Moon Bounce (some > calculations) > >> 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. _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
