28-March-2008, 07:25 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?)
How often does that screw up papers presented overseas?
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