>Well, my understanding is that American English uses terms >a little differently than the-rest-of-the-world English.
My understanding is opposite: Both Canada and the US uses a billion to mean a thousand million (giga -- 10^9), whereas Britain uses a billion to mean a million million (peta -- 10^12). And, I believe they (UK) are the only ones that use 10^12 as a billion. BTW, SI (the Metric System) also uses a billion as 10^9. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
