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Subject: Re: Computer Census
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Date: Fri, 5-Sep-86 18:08:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  5 18:08:00 1986
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Sep  5 17:08:00 1986


I'm sure the true Brits on the net will correct me, 
but this first generation child was under the impression
that the European number naming system went like this:

    1	- units
    10	- tens
    100	- hundred
    1000    - thousands
    10,000  - ten thousand
    100,000 - hundred thousand
    1,000,000	- thousand thousand, or, a million
    10^7, 10^8, 10^9	- ten, hundred, thousand million
			- a thousand million = a milliard
    10^10... - ten thousand million...
    10^12    - a million million, or, a billion
    10^13    - 10 billion .. a million billion, or, 
    10^18    - a million million million, or, a trillion
    10^24    - a billion billion, or, a million million million,
	     - or, by extension, a billiard (:-)

ie. a billiard would be 10^24, not 10^18.

I am always annoyed by Americans mocking the European system; it is much
more logical than million, billion, trillion...  It is, essentially,
a positional notation in words.

Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana.    USEnet:  ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!aglew
1101 E. University, Urbana, IL 61801    ARPAnet: aglew@gswd-vms