[Linux-aus] Re: Billions (was: [Talk] All your base are belong to SCO (ITHO) (was: the gloves come off))

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 19 June 2003 at 13:55:22 +0930, David Lloyd wrote:
>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <Greg.Lehey at auug.org.au> wrote:
>>>> That would be $3B; $1G is universally understood as $1,000
>>>
>>> Not in this part of the universe.
>>
>> Rubbish. A G is a Grand is a thousand dollars.  Always was; probably
>> always will be.
>
> A "G" is a thousand dollars, yes. But I don't think Greg was commenting
> on a "G". I thought he was commenting on the billion bit.

I was commenting on both.  In the passage above, David N. understood
the term I was talking about, but not the universe.  If you can find
only one person who doesn't use the term, it's not universal.  I don't
use the term.

Greg
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