(May 1, 2012 at 6:02 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(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.
A billion has been one thousand million all of my life.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
