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Subject:RE: Licence or license? From:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:48:03 -0500
Further to the discussion:
Over on the right-hand side of the pond, what
are you folks calling 1G when you say it out
loud?
One billion?
Are the Brits still calling it a thousand million?
And if so, whence "Tera"?
Are there 6300 million people in the world? Or only
6.3-or-so billion? <g>
I ask, only because I was prompted by this thread
to pick up my Concise Oxford, where I found that
"billion" and "trillion" had primary definitions
that sounded like what I'm used to (where a billion
has just nine zeros), but "(formerly, esp. Brit.
thousand million)" and "(... million million million)"
respectively...
And then gigaflop says: a unit of computing speed
equal to one thousand million floating-point operations
per second.
What about other Europeans?
/kevin
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