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Originally Posted by Seeker
we adopted 1000 million as a billion in 1975 and it's etc. for et cetera not ect, other than that, you're accurate  |
Good morning all.
We've adopted a lot of things over the years, to comply with the rest of the world.
If you were 6 foot tall before 1963, you would be 10.2 millionths of an inch taller after 1963, because that's when we standardised the old imperial inch to be exactly 25.4 mm......How's that for a piece of useless piffle?
Oh, & I still think of a billion as a million times a million, but I'm old too!
Cheers.