That's a good point. I think the British like to use terms like "thousand million". Do we all use "million" to mean 10^6?
When I way 1.6 billion pixels per second, I mean 1.6*10^9. On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 01:11:02 +0200, Jan Knutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whilre reading http://opengraphics.gitk.com/open_graphics_spec.pdf... > > As both a non-native american-english, and non-native english-english speaker, > I find the use of the word 'billion' extremely confusing. > > While Webster's unabridged dictionary defines a billion as "milliard", which > is > defined as a "a thousand millions" (10^9), it also defines a billion as > "in imitation of million a million" (10^12), further explaining that the > french and > american numerology systems adhere to the former, while the english system > conforms to the latter (as does .fi and .se afaik). > > I am assuming, after this time spent hunting down which part of the world > worship the 10^9 and which parts worship the 10^12 billion, and guessing > by Timothy's location, that the intended magnitude is indeed 10^9. > > If it's not too much trouble, would it be possible to sneak a mention of this > into the spec pdf? A (10^9) or (10^12) where apropriate, to clarify. :) > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
