From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Mon Feb 17 14:39:48 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Mon, 17 Feb 92 14:39 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA22164; Mon, 17 Feb 92 13:26:45 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA20691; Mon, 17 Feb 92 13:15:35 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA04483; Mon, 17 Feb 92 13:15:36 EST Message-Id: <9202171815.AA04483@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 9082; Mon, 17 Feb 92 13:14:12 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 2441; Mon, 17 Feb 92 13:13:02 EST Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1992 13:12:48 EST Reply-To: Guy Steele Sender: Lojban list From: Guy Steele Subject: Billion X-To: ucleaar%UCL.AC.UK@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: And Rosta's message of Mon, 17 Feb 1992 17:45:28 +0000 <9202171753.AA27367@Early-Bird.Think.COM> Status: RO Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1992 17:45:28 +0000 From: And Rosta 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. I've noticed the BBC and other European sources c arefulkly speaking of "N thousand millions" to avoid the problem.