[time-nuts] unités & conventions internationales

Joseph M Gwinn gwinn at raytheon.com
Mon Oct 12 21:03:27 UTC 2009


time-nuts-bounces at febo.com wrote on 10/12/2009 04:23:11 PM:

> From:
> 
> "Chris Cheney" <chris.cheney at tesco.net>
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> To:
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> Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
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> Date:
> 
> 10/12/2009 04:31 PM
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> Subject:
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> Re: [time-nuts] unités &  conventions internationales
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> Sent by:
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> time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
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> > While Britain and Europe may agree on the definition of "billion"
> 
> FWIW Britain is part of Europe. 

Hmm.  The British may regard this as an actionable libel.


>  It would seem that Britain and 
> "continental Europe" don't agree on the meaning of "billion".
> 
> Billion in the UK changed its meaning quite some time ago to accord with 

> the American usage (see 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales> - the 1974 timing 
> given there seems right IIRC).

Interesting Wiki article.  I didn't know the history.

Thanks,

Joe Gwinn



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