RE: billion was RE: DB Design

2003-07-29 Thread Scott Wilhelm
] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:00 PM To: CF-Talk 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

RE: billion was RE: DB Design

2003-07-29 Thread Ian Skinner
-- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource Sacramento, CA -Original Message- From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: billion was RE: DB Design thousand billion bytes Note a billion in the US and EU are different. A billion

RE: billion was RE: DB Design

2003-07-29 Thread Tony Weeg
: 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 -Original Message- From: webguy

RE: billion was RE: DB Design

2003-07-29 Thread Ian Skinner
BloodSource Sacramento, CA -Original Message- From: Scott Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:00 AM To: CF-Talk 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

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2003-07-29 Thread webguy
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