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From: Mike Dana <>
Subject: Re: Wealth
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:02:04 GMT


wrote:
>
> In article <>,
> wrote:
> > Given "milliard" as a thousand million, the obvious term for a
> > thousand (European) billion is "billiard." And I must say that I've
> > heard the term in use, although the context has made me wonder
> > whether a thousand billion was really meant.
>
> In article <>,
> Gerrit Bigalski <> wrote:
> > This is a Billiarde in German. Our system -illions and -illiards in
> > alternation.
>
> Cooooool! There we have it, then, a perfectly logical numbering system
> capable of incorporating numbers millions of times greater than those
> to which we're restricted by the US/modern system, with no occasion for
> confusion:
> thousand, million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard,
> etc.
> No need (at least for a few centuries) for zillions, schmillions,
> loadsillions or any made-up nonsense.
> Now what could possibly be the problem with that?

Wouldn't that be "thousion, thousiard, million..."? If we're going to
be consistant, let's be *consistant* about it! ;-D

--
Mike Dana Everett, Washington, U.S.A.
"Charity cannot be coerced: if it isn't voluntary, it isn't charity."
--Mike Dana,7 February, 1997

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