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Billion
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: Billion
- From: Edmund Grimley-Evans <cbmvax!uunet!RZ.UNI-SB.DE!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!dfkihueg>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 13:35:59 +0100
- Reply-To: Edmund Grimley-Evans <cbmvax!uunet!RZ.UNI-SB.DE!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!dfkihueg>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!LOJBAN>
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...