In message <c5597135.328a7%[email protected]>, dated Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Ken Javor <[email protected]> writes:
>This may be one of those usage differences that occur on opposite sides >of the Pond. After all, what we in the USA call a billion, you call a >milliard, and what you mean by a billion is what we call one trillion. No, we don't! 'Milliard' hasn't been used in UK for about 100 years, and we now (most of us, even the BBC!) use billion = 10^9. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk Either we are causing global warming, in which case we may be able to stop it, or natural variation is causing it, and we probably can't stop it. You choose! John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
