On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Lucas Wiman wrote:
> ><<1) What is the approximate P-90 computing time to test for primality
> >for a 1, 10, 100 million (& 1 trillion!) digit Mersenne Primes?>>
>
> >Generally, a billion comes after 100 million, but I can't remember how the
> >British and other countries work with billions. And I don't think that many
> >people run P90s now for GIMPS.... I hope.
US: million 10^6, billion 10^9, trillion 10^12 ...
Non-US: million 10^6, milliard 10^9, billion 10^12,
billiard 10^15, trillion 10^18 ...
In general,
US <num>llion 10^(num*3+3)
non-US <num>llion 10^(6*num), <num>lliard 10^(6*num+3)
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