>> And you were never curious as to why you never saw any amounts between 
>> $999m and $999999m written anywhere?  Anyway, you know now :-)
>
> Well, actually a never read the kind of material where you might ever see 
> such numbers at all, so... ;-)

You must of at least seen or heard the headline of MS bidding to buy Yahoo? 
That involved some number of billion dollars.

BTW, what you thought a billion was, 1e12, is such a big number that you 
would never really see it applied to money.  The largest companies in the 
world don't even sell close to $1e12 worth of stuff.  Only the largest 12 
countries in the world have a GDP of above $1e12.

> I think "million" and "billion" already sound way too similar for numbers 
> of vastly different sizes. Most people really don't notice the difference 
> between them.

What makes you think that?  Not noticing the difference could lead to some 
pretty embarrassing situations - I've never witnessed anything like that.

> I wonder what the hell people will call it when 4 terabyte drives become 
> common. MB => meg, GB => gig, TB => ???

terra?

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