I'll always remember my grandfather saying, "I'd rather be a billionaire in England than America". These days I say, "...Europe rather than America".

So, if an American billionaire has their money in a Swiss bank account, dose that make them only a millionaire...

I'll always remember my grandfather saying, "I'd rather be a billionaire in England than America". These days I say, "...Europe rather than America".

So, if an American billionaire has their money in a Swiss bank account, dose that make them only a millionaire...

Actually blame the French, their mathematicians are credited with creating the terms and values in the 15th century, which is now referred to as the long system.

The United Kingdom uses the short scale and has done for decades, the long scale being depreciated to merely being a quaint bit of trivia useful for pub quizzes.

I had never heard of there being a 2nd definition of a Billion in 35 years in Electrical Engineering. Leave it to the Brits to be different. At least in EE, there is only one definition.

Remember that there are two different definitions of a billion.

One is a thousand million (10^9), the other is a million millon (10^12). That's one of the reasons why SI units are so useful ;)

Really Getting Tired of Name Robbee'.

RU dave?

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How does 96 x 5.2 billion only add up to 50 billion instead of 500 billion? Does each instruction take 10 clock cycles to execute? Or is there some logical reason why combining 96 cores leads to 10% efficiency?