Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 05/19/10 09:51, Darren New wrote:
>> scott wrote:
>>> separate words for 10e9 and 10e12, so there is no such confusion.
>> And chinese uses steps of 10e5 or so, rather than 10e3.  My wife always
> 
> 	Wow. Another one. I wonder how long this has been going on without
> people noticing.
> 
> 	I recently bugged a guy at work for doing this.

Heh. It's rather confusing to *me* when she starts talking about "there was 
at first a hundred thousand people, then a thousand thousand people!" and 
similar convolutions. We don't have a word for ten thousand as such, or I'm 
sure it would get even more confusing instead of just a pause while the 
translation goes on.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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