Ed Huntress wrote:
"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
...

But that was solved a long time ago in science.
Only in money... Maybe that now.

Science is SI.

And Billion is 10^9.


If anyone wants to read about this (and to double-check Wikipedia), the
"short scale" and "long scale" SI names are he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

Let us know what you find out.

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Ed Huntress




Well that answers that!

As usual, all it takes is the right question.

Thank you, sir.

Richard