From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 13: 9:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (dhcp152.cdrom.com [204.216.28.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BDD637C1A8 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA02590 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:07:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:07:51 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions Message-ID: <20000316130751.I759@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <8ap37f$n4b$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200003161046.LAA36557@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003161046.LAA36557@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 11:46:05AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 16 March 2000 at 11:46:05 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote in list.freebsd-chat: >> 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone > > Shouldn't that be a trillion? > micro- == 1e-6, mega- == 1e+6, so the factor is 1e12 which > whould be 1 trillion (at least in the US; in Germany it's > "1 Billion", confusingly). Well, no, a billion is 10**12 in every country except the USA. The Americans have a history of short measure. Compare: England USA Pint 20 fl oz 16 fl oz Gallon 4.5 litres 3.8 litres Ton 2240 lbs 2000 lbs Billion 10**12 10**9 Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message