From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 17 14:34:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.x-treme.gr (mail2.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2A337B6A7 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat27.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.219]) by mail2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id AAA19779; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:33:57 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA10876; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:48:37 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:48:37 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Ovens Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions Message-ID: <20000317124836.A10194@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <200003161046.LAA36557@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; <20000316130751.I759@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200003162250.OAA28180@ocis.ocis.net> <20000316235012.F248@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: message body X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000316235012.F248@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 11:50:12PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 11:50:12PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:49:44PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > > JOOC, what is the progression in the non-Americas for 10^3 - > > 10^12? > > > > Here in Canada, it's: > > 10^3 thousand > > 10^6 million > > 10^9 billion > > 10^12 trillion > > So Canada subscribes to the US belief in short measure :) Actually this is closer to the notion of the respective Greek words for multiples of 1000. For example, 10,000 things are called 'muria'. Then, 10e+6 things are called 1 ekatomurio where the prefix 'ekato' means 100 (10e+6 = 100 * 10,000). After that, what we use is 10,000 = murio | deprecated ancient greek word 10e+6 = ekatommurio | 'ekato' = 100; 100 * 10,000 10e+9 = disekatommurio | 'dis', 'duo' => 2, i.e bi-llion 10e+12 = trisekatommurio | 'tris', 'tria' => 3; i.e. tri-llion This does not mean that what the US/Canada/Greece uses is the One True Way(TM) of naming numbers. I'm just trying to throw in an elaborate 'me too' posting, which someone might find useful, somewhere, sometime. For those interested in the strange duplication of 'm' in ekatommurio, it is because 100 in ancient greek was 'ekaton', and the 'n' at the end of the word somehow got mutated into an 'm' in front of the starting 'm' in 'murion'. Well, there you go... - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message