10 May
2010
10 May
'10
1:28 p.m.
On 10 May 2010 at 19:11, Andrew Burton wrote:
So if someone in the US orders a billion <insert
item here> from a
company in the UK, how many of the item should they expect to
receive?! Is that why orders are given in numbers and not words, and
why cheques have both?
Well, as I mentioned, I listen to the BBC World Service a lot and
today they were taling about the ECB bailout fund as being one
Trillion dollars.
Economics aside, I don't think they were talking about 10**18
simoleons, unless they were Zimbabwean simoleons.
If the BBC uses the short form billion, trillion, then it's pretty
safe to assume that the long form is sunsetting.
--Chuck