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#2 2005-07-20 19:51:20
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Re: Difficult question
1.5 Hours
(Time is the same)
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#5 2005-07-21 16:47:25
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And a million is a thousand thousand in the UK, but a million is a hundred thousand in the US.
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#6 2005-07-21 16:51:21
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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=
#7 2005-07-21 16:52:44
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Something like that, if I remember.
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#9 2005-07-21 16:56:53
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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!
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It wanted to be normal.
#10 2005-07-21 17:52:29
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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.
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