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hi,

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:05:25PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> It seems that both American English and British English got billion from
> French, just that the French arithmeticians changed their minds between
> the two times! The French then changed back to the million^2 definition i=
n=20
> 1948.

In 1948? That's a bit early for the German-French Friendship...

	-is

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