From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Peter J. Braam" <braam@clusterfs.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BIG files & file systems
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:01:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6811.1028203316@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020731131620.M15238@lustre.cfs>
braam@clusterfs.com said:
> (you don't want to know who, besides I've no idea how many bits go in
> a trillion, but it's more than 32).
It all gets a little confusing after 'million'. Either you mean a US
'trillion', which is a European 'billion'; 10^12. Or you mean a European
'trillion', which is a US 'quintillion'; 10^18.
In general, it's best to stick to the numeric form if it's greater than
10^6. With the possible exception of using 'milliard' for 10^9, which may
cause the recipient to have to look up the word, but won't cause it to be
misinterpreted as 10^12 by non-usians.
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:rwJFJLB7ZnoC:www.reportercentral.com/reference/vocabulary/numbernames.html
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dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-01 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-31 19:16 BIG files & file systems Peter J. Braam
2002-07-31 19:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-31 20:04 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-07-31 20:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-02 17:26 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-02 22:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-03 3:26 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06 5:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-06 7:24 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06 7:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-06 9:28 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-08-05 13:04 ` Stephen Lord
2002-08-05 13:42 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-05 13:56 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-05 14:21 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-05 17:31 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-06 0:16 ` jw schultz
2002-08-06 9:48 ` Hans Reiser
2002-07-31 21:07 ` Jan Harkes
2002-07-31 21:13 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-01 3:51 ` Jan Harkes
2002-08-01 12:01 ` Mark Mielke
2002-08-02 0:09 ` Stephen Lord
2002-08-02 12:17 ` Chris Mason
2002-08-02 12:33 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-08-02 13:56 ` Jan Harkes
2002-08-02 14:06 ` Steve Lord
2002-08-02 15:10 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 15:39 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-02 17:01 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 17:25 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 17:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-08-02 18:10 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 18:31 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-02 18:48 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-08-02 18:59 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-01 12:01 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-08-01 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
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