Drifting even more off topic. YUP, that's why a recent mars probe was lost. One agency was using English(American) measurements and another was using Metric measurements. And in the confusion the multi-hundreds million dollar research probe burned up in the mars atmosphere.
OOOOOPS -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource Sacramento, CA -----Original Message----- From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: billion was RE: DB Design > thousand billion bytes Note a billion in the US and EU are different. A billion is 1,000,000,000 US and 1,000,000,000,000 in the EU. Better off with 10^9 and 10^12 to avoid confusion :-) You know that NASA and the Russia Space angency had a joint project together where the US was using inches and russians used CM ? Hoston we have a problem. Lol. WG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
