-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Find the computer error
Ted MacNEIL pisze: >> 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. I believe this is difference between U.S. and German meaning of terms. In "German camp" we use milion-miliard, bilion-biliard etc. pairs. In "U.S. camp" you don't know miliard, biliard, etc. Of course our system is definitely better than yours <vbg> <snip> Doch! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
