As a curiosity, spanish "billon" is 10**12, one million of
millions. A spanish trillion, i'm not sure, but i think is
one million of millions of millions, so 10**18.
(Spanish recently proposed name for 10**9 is "miardardo")
In Spain that fact is annoying, since reporters mix both
type of billions, "Spanish" and "American". (Well,
really the annoying fact is not the difference between
cultures, but the ignorance of reporters)
Ricardo Bermell-Benet
At 12:51 1999-06-25 -0700, Tony H. wrote:
>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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