Why is it safe to use the British standard to add numbers in stories?
One simple
example: Billionand Other large numbers
Where I am from (Spain) I grew up knowing a Billion = 1000 000 000-5000, not 1000 000-5000,and it was some years before I learned to use both. Sadly, cultural penetration by American standards and cultural means that many of our children use the American standard, while some of us (like me at 23 and most people older than me) are stuck with a mind that thinks in the British standard.
In my book I am reading a preamble. I need a standard for writing my text. What is the most important standard to follow? I prefer to use the British standard (because that is what I am accustomed to, and it’s troubling to use the American standard) for my language work. What the best way to avoid problem of my life?
Is it enough to include a disclaimer?
Why the “native” approach of Indians to their culture is being marginalized?
Why we British people have discarded a million million billion dollar idea? How do we calculate the American billion and the American trillion?
In American English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. a million equals a million). In American English, it has always been equivalent to 1,000,000,000. British English has adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a thousand million in both varieties of English.
The same kind of transformation has taken place with the meaning of trillions. In British English, a trillion used to mean a million million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000). They are available in the form of thousands and thousands of different sources around the world. Today, it’s generally held to be equivalent to 1 million million (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) as it is in American English.
http://oxforddictionaries.org.au. How
many billion dollars are there in the world?
Why we British people have discarded a million million billion dollar idea? How do we calculate the American billion and the American trillion?
In American English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. a million equals a million). In American English, it has always been equivalent to 1,000,000,000. British English has adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a thousand million in both varieties of English.
The same kind of transformation has taken place with the meaning of trillions. In British English, a trillion used to mean a million million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000). They are available in the form of thousands and thousands of different sources around the world. Today, it’s generally held to be equivalent to 1 million million (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) as it is in American English.
http://oxforddictionaries.org.au. How
many billion dollars are there in the world?
Is it incorrect to use the words “Billion”, “trillion”, “quadrillion” or “Forbs”? for “twenties million”, “million
- million” etc. and use either: “thousands” or “millions” etc. ,
- unit prefixes, if the number has associated units, or
- scientific notation.
(Incidentally, a related recommendation is to use “.” as a decimal point and spaces as digit-group separators, due to the lack of a common standard use of “.” and “,” among European countries. So fifty million plus one half is 50 000 000. What
is 5″(.)?
Is it incorrect to use the words “Billion”, “trillion”, “quadrillion” or “Forbs”? for “twenties million”, “million
- million” etc. and use either: “thousands” or “millions” etc. ,
- unit prefixes, if the number has associated units, or
- scientific notation.
(Incidentally, a related recommendation is to use “.” as a decimal point and spaces as digit-group separators, due to the lack of a common standard use of “.” and “,” among European countries. So fifty million plus one half is 50 000 000. What
is 5″(.)?
