Oh, well. I guess the meaning of a ton[ne] is now trivial in this
context. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Piers Hemy wrote:
> On this page :
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers#Extensions_of_the_stand
> ard_dictionary_numbers> or otherwise <http://preview.tinyurl.com/355l2q>
> there are listed twenty two terms for various numerical quantities. Only
> one of them (million) is the same in each scale, and the bigest difference
> is (of course) in the term for the largest number, centillion which might be
> 10^303 or there again could be 10^600 - but who's counting?
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 November 2009 14:51
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) OT; China - a shift in global power?
>
> From the table I concluded that sextillion is only used in the short scale.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Piers Hemy wrote:
>> ... nor do *I* know whether that is sextillion ton[ne]s by the long
>> (10^36) or short (10^21) scale.
>>
>> I wonder what is the resulting range of possible answers?
>>
>> Piers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 13 November 2009 11:22
>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [OM] ( OM ) OT; China - a shift in global power?
>>
>> I noted the term "sextillion" at the bottom of the table in the link
> below.
>> That called to mind a little factoid I've carried in my head for years
>> and years and the only time I've heard "sextillion" in usage...
>> the weight of the earth is six sextillion tons.
>>
>> Now I don't know whose version of "ton" is meant here... :-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>>
>> SwissPace wrote:
>>> I believe the american trillion like the billion differs from what
>>> europe thinks it means
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
>>>
>>> so maybe 347 trillion is not so far from 2 trillion.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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