(April 30, 2012 at 9:32 am)Phil Wrote:That's what I always go with. I don't see it in terms of English imperialism, or superiority or whatever. To me it's just mathematically more correct.(April 29, 2012 at 10:13 pm)Stimbo Wrote: over 13,000,000,000 ly away (sorry, I hate and detest the 'new' definition of billion and refuse to use it unless I absolutely have no choice but to do so).
USA vs. Europe....the forum is in the UK so I guess the USA loses this one. How about we say 13000 million?
(April 30, 2012 at 4:57 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: What is the new definition of 13 billion?Until relatively recently, a billion had always been 1,000,000,000,000 or one million million - literally one bi-million. Which makes much more sense when you consider how base ten counting actually works. By extension, one trillion - tri-million - would be one million million million and so on.
To put it another way: regardless of the exchange rate, you can have a new-billion English pounds, I'll settle for a proper-billion US dollars.
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