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Originally Posted by mickal555
OK I drafted up a large post ages ago about this, but it was deleted. Since this is my thousandth post I want to redo it.
OK the universe is about 13 billion years old.
A Billion = million x million
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That's the old British convention.
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or douse it? it should logically
every time we square a number we need to invent a new name so
10^2 Ten
=100 Hundred
100^2
=1000 Thousand
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Hold it right there. 100 squared is not one thousand.
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Originally Posted by Paul Mitchell
Not sure I can really help, but the Americans have definitely won the definition of a Billion as 10^9, even the Bank of England uses that definition.
The (old) British definition of 10^9 was called a "milliard".
I think a trillion is 10^12.
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I think we should change back it makes so much more sence