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#1 2005-07-19 21:48:20
- Cath
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Difficult question
if a meter is 1 yard and 6 inches american. what does 90 minutes equal? in metrics i mean.
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#2 2005-07-19 21:51:20
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Re: Difficult question
1.5 Hours
(Time is the same)
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#3 2005-07-19 21:56:38
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Re: Difficult question
As simple as that!
But you would have to remember
(1) A second is a billion (US) nanoseconds but not a billion (UK) nanoseconds.
and
(2) An American Gallon is different from a gallon in UK
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#4 2005-07-20 08:36:50
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Re: Difficult question
Thank you!
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#5 2005-07-20 18:47:25
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Re: Difficult question
And a million is a thousand thousand in the UK, but a million is a hundred thousand in the US.
School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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#6 2005-07-20 18:51:21
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Re: Difficult question
It.... is? 1 000 000 is a million, not 100 000.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+million&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
#7 2005-07-20 18:52:44
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Re: Difficult question
Something like that, if I remember.
School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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#8 2005-07-20 18:53:40
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Re: Difficult question
No, a million is universal.
#9 2005-07-20 18:56:53
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Re: Difficult question
Rora's thinking of billions.
A UK billion is a million million and a US billion is a thousand million.
That's why there are so many more American billionaires!
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#10 2005-07-20 19:52:29
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Re: Difficult question
Richard Branson must be worth a PACKET then. LOL
I think that metric rules in this case. If you say "a billion" in a scientific journal it is assumed to be 10^9 (1,000,000,000).
Thousand, Million, Billion, Trillion, etc, each 1,000 times bigger.
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#11 2005-07-20 21:21:03
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Re: Difficult question
There's a better one! Truly universally acceptable, but not being put into use anywhere (I think! 
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1,0000 = Myriad
1,0000,0000 = Myllion
1,0000,0000,0000 = Byllion etc.
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