RE: printed & ebooks & books on demand- where will it go?

[Kevin Tarr]

Soooooooo when the original e-mail said billionth it wasn't ambiguous,
you are just stating a completely different point? And what is 10^9
called, then?

(This is fun ;-)

Kevin Tarr wrote:
> 
> ?? Shouldn't that be 10^-12?
> 
No. 10^-12 = billionth. I wrote 10^12 = billion

>> Please avoid the use of the ambiguous number "billion",
>> that should be 10^12 but is misused by astrologers as
>> 10^9

Alberto "let's start a units flame war!" Monteiro