From cbmvax!uunet!cuvma.bitnet!LOJBAN Mon Feb 17 15:45:19 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Mon, 17 Feb 92 15:45 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA06490; Mon, 17 Feb 92 15:42:09 EST Received: from rutgers.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA08216; Mon, 17 Feb 92 14:29:23 -0500 Received: from cbmvax.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) with UUCP id AA16136; Mon, 17 Feb 92 13:40:29 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA22011; Mon, 17 Feb 92 13:26:17 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (via uunet.UU.NET) by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA16367; Mon, 17 Feb 92 12:53:36 -0500 Message-Id: <9202171753.AA16367@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 9014; Mon, 17 Feb 92 12:52:26 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 2125; Mon, 17 Feb 92 12:51:55 EST Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1992 17:45:28 +0000 Reply-To: And Rosta Sender: Lojban list From: And Rosta Subject: Re: Billion To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:35:59 N.) <41534.9202130604@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk Status: RO Edmund Grimley-Evans > You didn't really go and gloss a Lojban gismu with the translation "billion", > did you? I mean that is really silly! In Britain billion usually means 1E12 > (except when referring to sums of money in currencies other than Italian > lire, Yugoslav dinar,...) quite apart from the use of billion in other > European languages... I believe that billion is invariably used for 1,000,000,000. I never hear of milliards. I may of course be continually misinterpreting _billion_, but if I am then so are hundreds of thousands of others.