Most of you probably know this, but for those who don't:
BI = 2 ==> Billion: 10^12 (10^6*2)
TRI = 3 ==> Trillion: 10^18 (10^6*3)
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From: "Mark Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] min bitrate and bit reservoir (was: MS switching)
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, David Balazic wrote:
> > Jaroslav Lukesh wrote:
> > > | The other one is translating american billions (10^9) and
trillions
> > > | (10^12) to Billionen (10^12) and Trillionen (10^18). You got
> > > fantastic
> > > | gross national product for the U.S.A. with values in the range
of
> > > 10^10
> > > | US $ per citicen.
> > >
> > > Not only in germany, but in Czech too :)
> >
> > But it's the americans fault ! :-)
> > For using those non-standard units !
>
> We *had* the same problem too. In English billions are 10^12 (or a million
> million) and trillions are 10^18. In American English billions are 10^9
> and trillions are 10^12. However, with so much exposure to American
> English and the realisation that 5 billion is quicker to say than 5
> thousand million we in the UK have adopted the American English way of
> doing things in common speech. English (not American) Dictionaries will
> tell you otherwise though.
> Cheers.
>
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