Why is it that journalists feel free to exchange "million" and "billion" ?
I was just reading that two 40 foot diameter pipelines in California, that will carry water from the Sacramento River to as far south as San Diego, will cost 15 million dollars.
Den torsdag den 30. april 2015 kl. 17.58.16 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
over here, billion is 10^12, 10^9 is milliard ;)
"journalist" these days seem to be mostly mindlessly copying from press releases and each other with no idea of what it actually says. The point is to get clicks and show ads as efficient as possible not much else
-Lasse
Here, a milliard is a variety of duck. 1e12 is a trillion.
_Mallard_ is a variety of duck ;-) Milliard is as Lasses says. ...Jim Thompson
Gosh, really?
Oh? I see. You thought you were being funny. ...Jim Thompson
Good, I'll take six. No, make that sixty.
A milliard is an insect with a lot of legs.
All insects have 6 legs - that's part of the classification of that group of animals.
As for millions and billions, Wikipedia has the answers:
I think it is a lot easier when people use kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc.
- it's hard to mix up megadollars and gigadollars.
"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
Now you have me wondering if a billiard ball is really a ballard ball. :-)
But what about megadollars versus mibibucks?! The tax man will need to know! ;-)
Tim
That's the design, planning, and project management budget
He'd have written millipede if he wasn't trying to be comic.
A ballad ball is a musician's fund-raiser ... google finds a couple of "murder ballad balls" in that catagory.
Gosh, you guys are so littoral.
An innumerate population gets innumerate journalism. And politicians.
They're going to weld together shells of old 350 Megafarad caps.
I don't sea your point.
Tim
No surplus Saturn rockets left?
That's pretty funny. This whole thread is about someone not being able to read.
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