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

[John Knight]

I didn't know that pluggers talked about ANSI C a lot.


>
>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
>


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