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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostYou still come across people that prefer pounds and ounces and the other awful imperial units using different and awkward number bases, for some unfathomable reason other than it is what they are used to. They must be really good at mental arithmetic.
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Originally posted by Platypus View PostYes - I knew someone just like that
He used to convert back to pounds shillings and pence too so he could moan about prices in "old money".
What a knob head !
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostI'm sure some patriotic diehards somewhere do though, if only to be awkward.
He used to convert back to pounds shillings and pence too so he could moan about prices in "old money".
What a knob head !
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Originally posted by swamp View PostDoes anyone else get annoyed when Gordon Brown says "we are spending four billions on the NHS..." ?
Is it grammatically correct to use the plural 'billions' here? You wouldn't say "I have six hundreds of pounds".
What a complete twunt of a donkey.
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Does anyone else get annoyed when Gordon Brown says "we are spending four billions on the NHS..." ?
Is it grammatically correct to use the plural 'billions' here? You wouldn't say "I have six hundreds of pounds".
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The Russians have:
million 1,000,000
milliard 1,000,000,000
billion 1,000,000,000,000
HTH
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The old british billion is now called a trillion.
So, the total personal debt in this country is now expressed as:
£1,500,000,000,000 =
£1,500,000 million =
£1,500 billion =
£1.5 trillion
The old british definition was more logical, but in practice we'd need something else to express 10^9.
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