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

[John Knight]

It's amzing what can happen in a day. I missed the daily email check 
yesterday and return to this!

>
>In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0109031246010.16974-100000 at opera.iinet.net.au>, on
>03/Sep/2001
>    at 12:47 PM,((WST) GMT)
>Andrew Francis <locust at iinet.net.au> said:
>
> >On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Clinton Butler wrote:
> >> Epoch is measured in the American ways.. and that's that! Our standard 
>for
> >> Billion is 10^12 (Million Million)
>
> >Can you supply a reference for that? Dictionary definitions appear to be
> >in dispute.
>
>The difinitive answer to that is probably [1] in the  Standards Australia
>publication AS ISO 1000-1998 The international system of units (SI) and
>its application. Retail  $44.88 hardcopy $40.39 PDF
>ISBN: 0-7337-0224-4
>http://www.standards.com.au/catalogue/script/Details.asp?DocN=stds000022866
>
>'s good eh, how they charge an arm and a leg to buy info on the standards
>your are supposed to comply with
>(http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/num_act/wamsa1960383/index.html )
>
>[1] not having one to hand I can't check but I'm pretty sure that's the
>one you want. --
>/-- Bob Ogden  bob at contact.omen.com.au --------------/
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>Only 31535687896 seconds till the _next_ millennium!
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