[plug] billion (was Unix Epoch: 1 billion seconds breakfastfunction.)

[Gavin Corfield]

Andrew Francis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, John Knight wrote:
> 
> > Time for my usual rant of pedantry, but would this be an English or an
> > American billion? I've always been quite puzzled by this as according to the
> > dictionary, a billion is 10 to the power of 12 (a million millions) unless
> > you live in America or France where it is 10 to the power of 9 (a thousand
> > millions).

Given that C was developed in the US and we normally talk about ANSI C
surely to be consistent a billion in relation to C should be an american
one.

gavin