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From: evan@pedsgo.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Computer Census
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Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 13:32:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 27 13:32:17 1986
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In article <184@wolf.UUCP> billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill "Did I Miss Something Here?" Wisner) writes:
>> [...] One was that the number of
>> computers is greater than the number of people in the world,
>> which I take to be 5 million million. [...]
>
>5 million million would be 5,000,000,000,000; five million millions. That there
>is five trillion.. 
>-- 
>Bill Wisner

As I understand it, in England, 'billion' does not mean the same thing as
it does in the US.   In the UK, a billion=10^12, while in the US a billion
= 10^9.  They call 10^9 a 'milliard'.  A Britisher watching American news
would almost certainly be confused hearing that there are ~5 billion people
in the world now.  

BTW, a trillion is 10^18 in England, and 10^12 in the US, and so on.
-- 
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