Le 09/11/2009 20:11, Warp nous fit lire :
> Le_Forgeron <lef### [at] freefr> wrote:
>> million, then billion, 10^3 more
>> milisecond, then bilisecond, 10^3 more too ( s/mil/bil/, same rule,
>> logical, therefore true! )
> 
>   But if millisecond is one millionth of a second, how do they name one
> thousandth of a second?
> 
milisecond is thousandth of second (notice the single l).
a lion is 10^3, so million is 10^6, billion 10^9 (for MS/US)

a isecond is 1 Hz (for other), so 1 milisecond is just 10^3 Hz... works
fine. No problem. Just be loony.
1 bilisecond = 1 bil-isecond = 10^6 Hz... see! I want to claim a patent now!

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