Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net> writes:

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, David Honig wrote:

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At 08:17 AM 1/8/01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:

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and there are very few opportunities for real misunderstanding. We know

The meaning of 'billion' differs by three orders of magnitude across the pond. That's plenty of room for confusion :-)

No it doesn't 1,000 million is in more common use now.

And in the US, "billiards" is a game played with cues and balls on a felt-covered slate table. In the UK, it's also a very large number. Thankfully, so large that that definition rarely comes

I have never heard "billiards" used as a number. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk whenever people agree with me i always feel i must be wrong. -- oscar wilde