Don
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 |  Subject: Trillion Dollars  Fri 3 Oct 2008 - 14:30 | |
| I believe we, Americans and English, have or had differing definition of big numbers.
American counting goes:
Thousand 1,000
Million 1,000,000
Billion 1,000,000,000
Trillion 1,000,000,000,000
| Quote: | From Wikipedia
For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United Kingdom uniformly used the long scale, while the United States of America used the short scale, so that usage of the two systems was often referred to as "British" and "American" respectively. In 1974 the government of the UK abandoned the long scale, so that the UK now applies the short scale interpretation exclusively in mass media and official usage. |
In any event, the “bailout bill” the US Congress is considering, and will probably pass, is BIG. It is almost a trillion dollars. This is well beyond my frame of reference.
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| | Subject: Re: Trillion Dollars Fri 3 Oct 2008 - 22:25 | |
| Hi Don.
I will just take my usual 10% please.
Cheers.
Daz
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| | Subject: Re: Trillion Dollars Sat 4 Oct 2008 - 19:21 | |
| You could buy a new car with that Daz!
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| | Subject: Re: Trillion Dollars Sun 5 Oct 2008 - 19:17 | |
| A Large Car Dealership
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| | Subject: Re: Trillion Dollars Tue 7 Oct 2008 - 22:09 | |
| Saw 1966 Mustang for sale on the internet for £6000 at the weekend, has 30,000 miles on the clock but joanne said no.
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Always there at the end of the day.
The light of their love forever constant as the Northern star.
Safely guiding me home.
Dreams are the realities of tomorrow.
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| | Subject: Re: Trillion Dollars Thu 9 Oct 2008 - 22:04 | |
| I see that Jo is my sort of woman as Ivor wanted to bring home a Ford2000E, simister, morris 1000, and then it was something else and I say NO. he has too many to start with. 7 motorbike in bits and we have the van the car (both on the road)and 3 landrovers and 2 rande rovers in bits pluss both kids have cars on the road. If it wasn't for the farm he could not have then as we could not store everything.
We did have a bump in the van the other week and the woman addmitted it was her fault so vans been wrote off and hes looking for a new camper.
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