British 10^9 is one thousand million!
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Peter
Peter J. MacDonald II
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Lotz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:05 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Numbers to Text
Then what is 10^9 in British?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Arnold - ASP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:46 AM
Subject: RE: Numbers to Text
> > > Anyone know of a custom tag available or a means within CF to convert
> > > numbers to text... 2 to two, 100 to one hundred, etc.?
> >
> > http://www.tei.or.th/eic/ under the free link.
>
> Nice tag apart from it's gramatical problems...
>
> 101 should be "one hundred and one" and not "one hundred one"
>
> Also, it treats billions in American and ignores British... so for UK
sites
> it'd be wrong
>
> In case anyone is wondering, an American Billion is 1,000,000,000 (10^9)
> while a British Billion is 1,000,000,000,000 (10^12)
> Similarly, an American Trillion is 10^12 while a British Trillion is 10^18
>
> The British version is seen as "Bi-million" as in "Million million" and
> "Tri-million" as in "Million million million" - the further you take this
> the bigger the different...
>
> Strange but often ignored number fact...
>
> Philip Arnold
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