28-March-2008, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ASEI
Wow. I never knew the British used an entirely different convention for naming large powers of 10! Does k,M,G,T, ect still mean what it means over here? (E3,E6,E9,E12 respectively?)
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Check that. Things change.
Wikipedia: Long and short scales
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The existence of the different scales means that care must be taken when comparing large numbers between languages or countries, or when using old documents in countries where the dominant scale has changed over time. For example, British English documents from 1900 used long scale values, which are different from current British short scale usage. Both scales were used in France and Italy at various times in their history, but these countries (and most other European countries) now officially use long scale. For example, the French word billion, the German word Billion and the Dutch word biljoen all refer to 1012. This translates to the short-scale term "trillion" (1012), not "billion" (109 in the short scale). See Current usage below.
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The Systeme International prefixes ( Wikipedia) mean what they mean and aren't part of this short/long scale nonsense.
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Last edited by 01101001; 29-March-2008 at 05:56 PM.
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