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Hmm

9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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 #1
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CJ,

try this one:
http://www.mathmojo.com/interestingl...e_numbers.html

I find that quite interesting, too!
And I'm always wondering, why it's Milliarde in German but Billion in
English...

Klaus

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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 #2
CJ,

try this one:
http://www.mathmojo.com/interestingl...e_numbers.html

I find that quite interesting, too!
And I'm always wondering, why it's Milliarde in German but Billion in
English...

Klaus

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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 #3
MathMojo...

That is awesome. =) Definatly nice to learn what an illiard is though... I
have a british friend, I just pretend I know what he's saying. =)
"Klaus Löffelmann" <fo***********@loeffelmann.de> wrote in message
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
CJ,

try this one:
http://www.mathmojo.com/interestingl...e_numbers.html
I find that quite interesting, too!
And I'm always wondering, why it's Milliarde in German but Billion in
English...

Klaus

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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 #4
MathMojo...

That is awesome. =) Definatly nice to learn what an illiard is though... I
have a british friend, I just pretend I know what he's saying. =)
"Klaus Löffelmann" <fo***********@loeffelmann.de> wrote in message
news:%2***************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
CJ,

try this one:
http://www.mathmojo.com/interestingl...e_numbers.html
I find that quite interesting, too!
And I'm always wondering, why it's Milliarde in German but Billion in
English...

Klaus

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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 #5
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LargeNumber.html

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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 #6
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LargeNumber.html

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.com...
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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 #7
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:52:06 -0500, CJ Taylor wrote:
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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.


Here's a chart that goes up to 10^(10^100), a "googolplex":
http://g42.org/MiscInfo/numbers.html

I used to have a link to a page that discussed even *bigger* numbers,
but alas, 'tis lost...
--
auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com
*****
....hit enter and... [THUNK - GRIND] It's not supposed to do THAT. [THUNK
THUNK THUNK WHIRR GRIND GRIND]
Nov 20 '05 #8
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:52:06 -0500, CJ Taylor wrote:
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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.


Here's a chart that goes up to 10^(10^100), a "googolplex":
http://g42.org/MiscInfo/numbers.html

I used to have a link to a page that discussed even *bigger* numbers,
but alas, 'tis lost...
--
auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com
*****
....hit enter and... [THUNK - GRIND] It's not supposed to do THAT. [THUNK
THUNK THUNK WHIRR GRIND GRIND]
Nov 20 '05 #9
I should point out, as a UK citizen with a maths degree and a pretty decent
vocabulary, 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.
"Auric__" <no*********@email.address> wrote in message
news:vo********************************@4ax.com...
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:52:06 -0500, CJ Taylor wrote:
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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.


Here's a chart that goes up to 10^(10^100), a "googolplex":
http://g42.org/MiscInfo/numbers.html

I used to have a link to a page that discussed even *bigger* numbers,
but alas, 'tis lost...
--
auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com
*****
...hit enter and... [THUNK - GRIND] It's not supposed to do THAT. [THUNK
THUNK THUNK WHIRR GRIND GRIND]

Nov 20 '05 #10
I should point out, as a UK citizen with a maths degree and a pretty decent
vocabulary, 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.
"Auric__" <no*********@email.address> wrote in message
news:vo********************************@4ax.com...
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:52:06 -0500, CJ Taylor wrote:
9,223,372,036,854,775,808

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.


Here's a chart that goes up to 10^(10^100), a "googolplex":
http://g42.org/MiscInfo/numbers.html

I used to have a link to a page that discussed even *bigger* numbers,
but alas, 'tis lost...
--
auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com
*****
...hit enter and... [THUNK - GRIND] It's not supposed to do THAT. [THUNK
THUNK THUNK WHIRR GRIND GRIND]

Nov 20 '05 #11
Cor
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
Nov 20 '05 #12
Cor
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
Nov 20 '05 #13
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 decent
vocabulary, 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.
--
auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com
*****
SAFESEX.ZIP is a Trojan.
Nov 20 '05 #14
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 decent
vocabulary, 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.
--
auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com
*****
SAFESEX.ZIP is a Trojan.
Nov 20 '05 #15
Cor
Hi Auric

English is a language which derives from Germanic (and special in that
Danish and the old Nordsea language not German), French and the Gallic
languages.

I thought that in all those languages it is

million-miljon (or whatever)
milliard-miljard (or whatever)
billion-biljon (or whatever)

Sheems to be a shift in the language, why I do not know.

Cor

Nov 20 '05 #16
Cor
Hi Auric

English is a language which derives from Germanic (and special in that
Danish and the old Nordsea language not German), French and the Gallic
languages.

I thought that in all those languages it is

million-miljon (or whatever)
milliard-miljard (or whatever)
billion-biljon (or whatever)

Sheems to be a shift in the language, why I do not know.

Cor

Nov 20 '05 #17
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**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.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

Nov 20 '05 #18
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**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.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

Nov 20 '05 #19
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@oldfield100_wow_freeserve_yikes_co_incredible !_uk> wrote
in message news:ey***************@tk2msftngp13.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**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.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


Nov 20 '05 #20
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@oldfield100_wow_freeserve_yikes_co_incredible !_uk> wrote
in message news:ey***************@tk2msftngp13.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**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.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


Nov 20 '05 #21
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****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.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@oldfield100_wow_freeserve_yikes_co_incredible !_uk> wrote in message news:ey***************@tk2msftngp13.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**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.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



Nov 20 '05 #22
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****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message
news:10*************@corp.supernews.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@oldfield100_wow_freeserve_yikes_co_incredible !_uk> wrote in message news:ey***************@tk2msftngp13.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**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.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



Nov 20 '05 #23
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
Nov 20 '05 #24
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
Nov 20 '05 #25

"Auric__" <no*********@email.address> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:2g********************************@4ax.com...
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.

Nov 20 '05 #26

"Auric__" <no*********@email.address> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:2g********************************@4ax.com...
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.

Nov 20 '05 #27

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