![]() ![]() It was probably not vandalism, just a product of the fact that there are two meanings of each of these words thanks to some bunch of clowns in the 17th century. Ray Spalding 06:42, 26 September 2005 (UTC) Reply What I call a billion you call a trillion. Someone changed "trillion" to "billion", but I have changed it back. ![]() 68.105.199.216 ( talk) 17:05, 7 October 2012 (UTC) Reply Debates like this are why I never use the words "billion" or "trillion" (or their higher-order relatives) in wiki articles. It seems like those who claim to be scientists, rather than acting in an enlightened manner, work in confusion. Whenever someone uses words like parsec and light year, it is always necessary to convert it normal SI units before it is understood. Wouldn't it make more sense to state its approximate distance in normal units as 30.9 Pm instead of "trillions of kilometres", when names like trillion have different meanings to different people? Then again, why do we need this nonsense unit when expressing all spacial distances in metres with proper prefixes, such as kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta can be used? The Government and BBC would call the above number 19.2 trillion miles - see long scale for further information. Derek Ross | Talk 16:21, 25 November 2004 (UTC) Reply Make that 'Traditional British billion' rather than 'modern British billion'. It would be 19.2 trillion miles in American trillions. If you're talking American billion, then no. ![]()
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