Hi! Just to clear things up a little bit, here's a reasonably complete list of European quantities
1 thousand 10^3 1 million 10^6 1 milliard 10^9 1 billion 10^12 1 billiard 10^15 1 trillion 10^18 1 trilliard 10^21 1 quadrillion 10^24 1 quadilliard 10^27 1 quintillion 10^30 1 quintilliard 10^33 1 sextillion 10^36 1 sextilliard 10^39 1 septillion 10^42 1 septilliard 10^45 1 octillion 10^48 1 octilliard 10^51 1 nonillion 10^54 1 nonilliard 10^57 1 decillion 10^60 1 decilliard 10^63 [...] 1 centillion 10^600 1 googol 10^100 1 googolplex 10^(10^100) - A ridicilously large number A good site for explaining some of these differences and other stuff is http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/large.html Best regards, P�r Karlsson, Sweden P.S Apologies for the abysmal formatting, due to my mail client. D.S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lennart Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Johan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 5:12 PM Subject: Re: billions and billions of stars.... was: Re: Another easter egg in gnome-something... > > > > > > Since this starts to look like a language lesson here is the Swedish > > words - which also follows the Brittish way. > > > > 10^3 tusen > > 10^6 miljon > > 10^9 miljard > > 10^12 biljard > > 10^15 triljard > > 10^12 biljon > 10^15 biljard > 10^18 triljon > 10^21 triljard > > unless swedish is less like the other scandinavian languages than > I though. A google search seems to prove me right. > > Lennart Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
