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-----Original Message----- >From: "J. Forster" <[email protected]> >Sent: Oct 12, 2009 2:07 PM >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] unités & conventions internationales > >Thankfully, the enlightened use: > >... >femto >pico >nano >micro >UNIT >kilo >mage >giga >tera >... > >-John > >================= > > > >> [email protected] wrote on 10/12/2009 04:23:11 PM: >> >>> From: >>> >>> "Chris Cheney" <[email protected]> >>> >>> To: >>> >>> Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >> <[email protected]> >>> >>> Date: >>> >>> 10/12/2009 04:31 PM >>> >>> Subject: >>> >>> Re: [time-nuts] unités & conventions internationales >>> >>> Sent by: >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> > While Britain and Europe may agree on the definition of "billion" >>> >>> FWIW Britain is part of Europe. >> >> Hmm. The British may regard this as an actionable libel. >> >> >>> It would seem that Britain and >>> "continental Europe" don't agree on the meaning of "billion". >>> >>> Billion in the UK changed its meaning quite some time ago to accord with >> >>> the American usage (see >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales> - the 1974 timing >>> given there seems right IIRC). >> >> Interesting Wiki article. I didn't know the history. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joe Gwinn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
