Britishisims for Dummies

[Callaway]

Of course I meant 1x10¹² and 1x10¹⁸. 

So, you use the word milliard for what I call a billion, 10⁹, in Sweden?

Doesn't that confuse you when you read scientific journals written in English?

I found this, which might be helpful since it has both notations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefixes

[Leto729]

No. We use billion.

Starting U.S. standards here and there too.

[Litigious]

Of course I meant 1x10¹² and 1x10¹⁸. 

So, you use the word milliard for what I call a billion, 10⁹, in Sweden?

Doesn't that confuse you when you read scientific journals written in English?

I found this, which might be helpful since it has both notations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefixes

Yes, it confuses a bit, but ususally you don't use words for numbers much over a billion (English or otherwise) anyway.

[Leto729]

I have spoken a truth.

[Scrapheap]

But how can we be sure that what we know is INDEED true ?? ?? ??

[Litigious]

What does that have to do with Britishism for Dummies? 

[Scrapheap]

Do any of you Tommies know some good Frog jokes ??

[Litigious]

We have a song in Sweden where we sing (in Swedish):
"Emperor Napoleon had hundred thousand men.
Emperor Napoleon had hundred thosand men.
Emperor Napoleon had hundred thousand men,
when he marched along the road in macadam."

The melody is the same as "John Brown's body lies a'mouldring in his grave". You sing it repeatedly, but for each time you leave out the last word from "men" and backwards, until there is nothing left but the part "when he marched along the road in macadam." Do you get the point?