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From: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Subject: Re: FAQ entry for loopback mounting
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:39:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44350C16.9010109@arcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1144325730.6227.136.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> G == 1,000,000,000        (one milliard)

billion

> T == 1,000,000,000,000    (one en_GB billion)

trillion

The old british terms haven't been in widespread use in the UK for a
over a decade (at least).

See official UK government usage of the terms, for example.

David Vrabel
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David Vrabel, Design Engineer

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-06 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-05 16:00 FAQ entry for loopback mounting Ralph Siemsen
2006-04-05 16:27 ` David Woodhouse
     [not found]   ` <4433F9FE.7020501@rossvideo.com>
2006-04-05 17:27     ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-05 17:36       ` Ralph Siemsen
2006-04-05 19:05         ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-06 10:33           ` David Vrabel
2006-04-06 12:04             ` Ralph Siemsen
2006-04-06 12:15               ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-06 12:39                 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2006-04-06 13:10 ` Ralph Siemsen

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