Re: billion and trillion

From: Tony Harminc (tzha1@ibm.net)
Date: Fri Jun 25 1999 - 15:56:57 EDT


On 25 Jun 99, at 19:42, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> Are you really sure about the
>
> B (billion) 10**6
> Tr (trillion) 10**9
>
> part of this, or could this be 10**3 off?

Oops! Dropped a line. And much as I'd like to blame it on a bug in
some piece of Microsoft software, I can't. ;-)

Should be:

SI Financial Tabloid Multiplier

k (kilo) M (Roman) G (grand) 10**3
M (mega) MM (Roman) M (million) 10**6
G (giga) MMM (rare) B (billion) 10**9
T (tera) - Tr (trillion) 10**12

Tony H.



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