Not an expert but I know the difference exists. It's mostly cultural I believe. In America, we change the name of a number every three digits.
1,000 = thousands 1,000,000 = millions 1,000,000,000 = billions 1,000,000,000,000 = trillions In England, they used to take a different look (the American version is apparently spreading, yet another cultural export of ours. 1,000 = thousands 1,000 * 1,000 = 1,000,000 = millions 1,000,000 * 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000,000 = billions So, the US deficit is really huge to the over the pond audience. -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource Sacramento, CA -----Original Message----- From: Scott Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: billion was RE: DB Design This might be a stupid question, but why is it different from the us to the eu? I know that there's different units of measure, but counting I thought was consisitent... What's the equivalent of a (US) billion in EU? Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:00 PM > 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
