===================================== MODERATOR'S COMMENT:
 While fascinating, this thread is also ended.  :-)


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Allan W wrote:
 >[...]
>
> BTW, in the United States we would say "have not learned how to"
> rather than "have not learnt how to." Another difference that might or
> might not be interesting is the way we pronounce very large numbers.
>
>                      United States   Europe
> One million          1E6             1E6
> One thousand million "Bad English"   1E9
> One billion          1E9             1E12
> One million billion  "Bad English"   1E18

Odd; I'd have expected 1E6 * 1E9 = 1E15 -- in bad US English.  And I
think that UK English calls One Million Billion = 1E18 = One Trillion,
rather than 1E21.  So million = 1E6; billion = 1E12; trillion = 1E18,
in powers of 1E6.

> One trillion         1E12            1E21

I'm a US resident but a UK citizen, not that it makes my statements
very much more definitive.


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