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Sep. 25th, 2008 06:36 pm
[personal profile] asterroc
I forgot that BBC does good summaries of situations that are large and I have a hard time wrapping my head around.

AIG
$7*1011
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Date: 2008-09-25 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xoder.livejournal.com
Nitpick attack!!

700 Billion Dollars is $7*1011

Date: 2008-09-25 11:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zandperl.livejournal.com
Fixed. I was thinking "billion = 10^9", dur. Thankfully they're not talking about the other definition of billion either - in some languages/regions the word "billion" is apparently used for 10^12.
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