Kilopascal wrote in USMA 11053: >It is also interesting that the Italians use the more coherent number >naming, with the word miliardi for 10^9, where as the Spanish uses "mil >millones, and the English uses billion. Officially in British English a billion is 10^12. In commercial circles it is 10^9. For that reason the term should be avoided in English. It is better to use the exponential notation for 10^9 and higher numbers. Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
