[thechat] Bill Gates

Syed Zeeshan Haider szh at softhome.net
Wed Jul 24 22:22:43 CDT 2002


From: "Paul Cowan" <evolt at funkwit.com>
To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: July 24, 2002, Wednesday 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: [thechat] Bill Gates


>Is it just me or is $5.62 trillion (US
> trillion, I assume: 5.62x10^12), divided by divided by $7.8 (US)
>billion
> (7.8x10^9) work out to 720 years?

Paul, the text inside <bill gates> tags was same as I received it. I did
not make any change in it except I corrected some spelling mistakes. I
assume it was US trillion.
To be very honest, I still can't understand the differences in numeric
systems of US and UK. Being a physics student, I prefer to use

"number * 10^x"

or simply scientific notations.

Syed Zeeshan Haider.
http://syedzeeshanhaider.faithweb.com/




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