scott wrote:
>> Well, even if you try to be metric, the Americans have a different 
>> idea about what constitutes a "billion"...
> 
> Dude, you're so out of date, were you even born when the UK officially 
> abandoned the idea that a million million is a billion?

It's new to me that it was *ever* abandoned. (Why would you do such a 
thing?)

At any rate, I guess Word's "don't use that word" suggestion is the best 
advice. [Oh, the irony of an M$ product producing good advice...]

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