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

[JimOttley]

Are you sure..???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000000000_(number)

I will accept your gracious apology in your next post.. Or any links to any other definition past or present...

AJ

AJ sir, that was not even a wiki page it was a placeholder for an error

Boss found a good reference, most kids from the 60's or earlier would recognise the british billion, even young Gary knew about it.

Personaly I am sad to see it's decline but what the heck, we get to use big number names the US way

Let's just hope that US trillion does not become a familiar number of pounds on the news

I'm on a cellphone btw which is why my replies are a bit slow.

Jim

[Ayjay]

AJ sir, that was not even a wiki page it was a placeholder for an error

Boss found a good reference, most kids from the 60's or earlier would recognise the british billion, even young Gary knew about it.

Personaly I am sad to see it's decline but what the heck, we get to use big number names the US way

Let's just hope that US trillion does not become a familiar number of pounds on the news

I'm on a cellphone btw which is why my replies are a bit slow.

Jim

Thanks for taking time out to reply... I suppose that the upside to this is that the terminology has been standardised thus eliminating potential confusion..

Regards

AJ