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- ganesh
- 2005-07-21 19:21:03
There's a better one! Truly universally acceptable, but not being put into use anywhere (I think! 
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1,0000 = Myriad
1,0000,0000 = Myllion
1,0000,0000,0000 = Byllion etc.
- MathsIsFun
- 2005-07-21 17:52:29
Richard Branson must be worth a PACKET then. LOL
I think that metric rules in this case. If you say "a billion" in a scientific journal it is assumed to be 10^9 (1,000,000,000).
Thousand, Million, Billion, Trillion, etc, each 1,000 times bigger.
- mathsyperson
- 2005-07-21 16:56:53
Rora's thinking of billions.
A UK billion is a million million and a US billion is a thousand million.
That's why there are so many more American billionaires!
- Pingu
- 2005-07-21 16:53:40
No, a million is universal.
- Roraborealis
- 2005-07-21 16:52:44
Something like that, if I remember.
- Pingu
- 2005-07-21 16:51:21
It.... is? 1 000 000 is a million, not 100 000.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+million&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
- Roraborealis
- 2005-07-21 16:47:25
And a million is a thousand thousand in the UK, but a million is a hundred thousand in the US.
- Cath
- 2005-07-21 06:36:50
Thank you!
- ganesh
- 2005-07-20 19:56:38
As simple as that!
But you would have to remember
(1) A second is a billion (US) nanoseconds but not a billion (UK) nanoseconds.
and
(2) An American Gallon is different from a gallon in UK
- MathsIsFun
- 2005-07-20 19:51:20
1.5 Hours
(Time is the same)
- Cath
- 2005-07-20 19:48:20
if a meter is 1 yard and 6 inches american. what does 90 minutes equal? in metrics i mean.