[time-nuts] unités & conventions internationales

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Mon Oct 12 21:07:34 UTC 2009


Thankfully, the enlightened use:

...
femto
pico
nano
micro
UNIT
kilo
mage
giga
tera
...

-John

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> time-nuts-bounces at febo.com wrote on 10/12/2009 04:23:11 PM:
>
>> From:
>>
>> "Chris Cheney" <chris.cheney at tesco.net>
>>
>> To:
>>
>> Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> <time-nuts at febo.com>
>>
>> Date:
>>
>> 10/12/2009 04:31 PM
>>
>> Subject:
>>
>> Re: [time-nuts] unités &  conventions internationales
>>
>> Sent by:
>>
>> time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
>>
>> > While Britain and Europe may agree on the definition of "billion"
>>
>> FWIW Britain is part of Europe.
>
> Hmm.  The British may regard this as an actionable libel.
>
>
>>  It would seem that Britain and
>> "continental Europe" don't agree on the meaning of "billion".
>>
>> Billion in the UK changed its meaning quite some time ago to accord with
>
>> the American usage (see
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales> - the 1974 timing
>> given there seems right IIRC).
>
> Interesting Wiki article.  I didn't know the history.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Gwinn
>
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