[meteorite-list] Fw: term definitions and usage

[Leoncio Cividanes Álvarez]

Here in Spain a billion is also 10^12, a literal translation from what we call 10^9 here would be "a thousand millions".

BTW, a "real" binary gigabyte is not 10^9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

Best regards,
Leo


> From: element33 at peconic.net
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com; mexicodoug at aim.com
> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:54:03 +0200
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: term definitions and usage
> 
> Hi Doug, List,
> 
> What do you mean with "many Europeans consider the billion with 12 zeros" ?
> Billion is called "Milliard" (and subsequent language variations) and has 9 
> zeros, like Giga.
> 
> All the best
> MB
> 
> 
> 
> From: MexicoDoug
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 3:54 AM
> To: clp at alumni.caltech.edu ; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: term definitions and usage
> 
> 
> Many Europeans consider the billion with 12 zeros (1,000,000,000,000),
> while in the US and many other countries, it has been considered nine
> zeros, a thousand million. Giga has the benefit of only referring to
> nine zeros everywhere ... 
> 
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