London Olympics... Financial Burden.. Way Past Its Sell By Date

[KeithD]

http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm

[Ayjay]

http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm

Thanks for this... and this is new to me since I have always treated such numbers in an engineering context.. where 10^9 as one billion..

AJ

[JimOttley]

http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm

Yep everywhere but the US it's the square of the previous number in the US it's 1000 times the previous number.

They just like getting to use all those big sexy numbers quicker than all the rest of us, everything is always bigger in the states

jim

[KeithD]

......everything is always bigger in the states

jim

Even their are bigger.....just a pity they are on the head