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Date: Tue, 28 May 91 19:07 GMT
From: "Guy J. Sherr" <0004322955@mcimail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Are Telco Profits Too Large? 
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Patrick,

You may wish to remind some of us that English notation given as a
billion is actually a number with 12 zeroes, and not 9.  3000 billion
pounds sterling would therefore be 3,000,000,000,000,000 pounds
sterling written out, and I believe worth approximately 4.5
quadrillion US dollars (apologies to those following the exchange
rate).  This number seems to be inaccurate.  It is more than 50 years
of the United States's GNP.