9,223,372,036,8 54,775,808
How would one pronounce that...
I can get to the trillion, but then I start making up numbers like I was
when I was three like "gagillion"
It is nice though that Microsoft .NET is U.S. Deficit Compliant.
Nov 20 '05
26  1620 
HA! Thats some funny stuff again.. =)
I brought this up to a friend last night from britan, he asked me , "what
the f*** is a billiard?"
"Rob Oldfield" <rob@oldfield10 0_wow_freeserve _yikes_co_incre dible!_uk> wrote
in message news:ey******** *******@tk2msft ngp13.phx.gbl.. . Good point.
Now you'll have to excuse me, I have to go and colonise a country.
"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
news:uR******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl... Hi Rob,
Billiards is a word, but is a game played on a snooker/pool type table.
A real British answer, is it not something as
"Snooker/pool are games played on special types of billiard tables"
:-)
Cor
LOL, same here! I have a friend at the Univ of Bristol in UK who is getting
his doctrate in mathmatics/cryptology and he didn't have a clue what I was
talking about.
"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoa ts.com> wrote in message
news:10******** *****@corp.supe rnews.com... HA! Thats some funny stuff again.. =)
I brought this up to a friend last night from britan, he asked me , "what
the f*** is a billiard?"
"Rob Oldfield" <rob@oldfield10 0_wow_freeserve _yikes_co_incre dible!_uk>
wrote in message news:ey******** *******@tk2msft ngp13.phx.gbl.. . Good point.
Now you'll have to excuse me, I have to go and colonise a country.
"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
news:uR******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl... Hi Rob,
>Billiards is a word, but is a game played on a snooker/pool type
table.
A real British answer, is it not something as
"Snooker/pool are games played on special types of billiard tables"
:-)
Cor
LOL, same here! I have a friend at the Univ of Bristol in UK who is getting
his doctrate in mathmatics/cryptology and he didn't have a clue what I was
talking about.
"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoa ts.com> wrote in message
news:10******** *****@corp.supe rnews.com... HA! Thats some funny stuff again.. =)
I brought this up to a friend last night from britan, he asked me , "what
the f*** is a billiard?"
"Rob Oldfield" <rob@oldfield10 0_wow_freeserve _yikes_co_incre dible!_uk>
wrote in message news:ey******** *******@tk2msft ngp13.phx.gbl.. . Good point.
Now you'll have to excuse me, I have to go and colonise a country.
"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
news:uR******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl... Hi Rob,
>Billiards is a word, but is a game played on a snooker/pool type
table.
A real British answer, is it not something as
"Snooker/pool are games played on special types of billiard tables"
:-)
Cor
Now I think I see it,
Always the same with those Americans.
They probably did not understand that a Milliard was no Billiard and the
corrected that to Billion.
:-)
Cor
Now I think I see it,
Always the same with those Americans.
They probably did not understand that a Milliard was no Billiard and the
corrected that to Billion.
:-)
Cor
"Auric__" <no*********@em ail.address> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:2g******** *************** *********@4ax.c om... On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 01:19:29 +0100, Rob Oldfield wrote:
I should point out, as a UK citizen with a maths degree and a pretty
decentvocabulary, that I've never heard of the words milliard, billiard or
trilliard. (Billiards is a word, but is a game played on a snooker/pool
type table.)
So I wouldn't try impressing any European friends with this info.
I've heard of milliard, never used it. I've never heard billiard used as
a number either, but what the hell. If I remember right, milliard is a
French convention, adopted by the UK some time ago but (apparently) not
universal. The "non-milliard" system is German (I think) and sees wider
popularity.
Actually, it's not. I *am* German, and I think I lost about a milliard four
years ago at the stock marked.
Believe me, I know, what a milliard is...
;-)
Klaus
--
auric "underscore " "underscore " "at" hotmail "dot" com
*****
SAFESEX.ZIP is a Trojan.
"Auric__" <no*********@em ail.address> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:2g******** *************** *********@4ax.c om... On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 01:19:29 +0100, Rob Oldfield wrote:
I should point out, as a UK citizen with a maths degree and a pretty
decentvocabulary, that I've never heard of the words milliard, billiard or
trilliard. (Billiards is a word, but is a game played on a snooker/pool
type table.)
So I wouldn't try impressing any European friends with this info.
I've heard of milliard, never used it. I've never heard billiard used as
a number either, but what the hell. If I remember right, milliard is a
French convention, adopted by the UK some time ago but (apparently) not
universal. The "non-milliard" system is German (I think) and sees wider
popularity.
Actually, it's not. I *am* German, and I think I lost about a milliard four
years ago at the stock marked.
Believe me, I know, what a milliard is...
;-)
Klaus
--
auric "underscore " "underscore " "at" hotmail "dot" com
*****
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