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

[Julia Thompson]

Dan Minette wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: printed & ebooks & books on demand- where will it go?
> 
> > Kevin Tarr wrote:
> > >
> > > Soooooooo when the original e-mail said billionth
> > > it wasn't ambiguous,
> > >
> > It was ambiguous, because it inherits the ambiguity
> > of billion. Why do you keep misquoting me?
> >
> > > you are just stating a completely different point?
> > >
> > I am not, and stop this name-calling! Can't we argue
> > like civilized people?
> >
> > > And what is 10^9 called, then?
> > >
> > A thousandth of a millionth or a thousand billionths.
> > What is 10^7 called, then?
> >
> 
> Fred.

Funny, I thought that *10^8* was Fred, and that 10^7 was *Joe*.

Well, I'm a stupid-units-using American, what do *I* know?

        Julia