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Subject: billion was RE: DB Design
thousand billion bytes
Note a billion in the US and EU are different. A billion is
1,000,000,000
US and 1,000,000,000,000 in the EU.
Better off with 10^9 and 10^12 to avoid confusion :-)
You know
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From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:00 AM
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Subject: billion was RE: DB Design
thousand billion bytes
Note a billion in the US and EU are different. A billion
: billion was RE: DB Design
This might be a stupid question, but why is it different from the us to
the eu?
I know that there's different units of measure, but counting I thought
was consisitent...
What's the equivalent of a (US) billion in EU?
Scott
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From: webguy
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From: Scott Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:00 AM
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Subject: RE: billion was RE: DB Design
This might be a stupid question, but why is it different from the us to the
eu?
I know that there's different
In England,
Hey, what about Ireland :-)
Why the difference???
Its a historical oddity. Nothing specific made it that way. Unlike other
languages.
So thousand million (10^9) is called a milliard in the European style etc..
The American system was actually based on a French system which they
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