Re: Human perception of infrared

["Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Ferrucci wrote:

>Oxford English Dictionary", 1993, and found agreement with what bazpan
>says, namely, a billion is a thousand million.  However, also included in
>the definition is the meaning, "a million million (only in British pop.
>use)".  My own copy of the Compact OED, 1964, defines things as I stated
>in a previous posting (UK billion = 10^12, US billion = 10^9).
>
>It appears that UK English speakers have switched over to the US usage
>sometime in the last 30 years or so... which is good; I don't particularly
>care which definition is adopted, but consistency is important when dealing
>with such large quantities!

....I would hate to order a billion rolls of 70mm IR film and receive (and
be billed for) a million million instead of just a thousand million....:-)


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