OT: Space Empires and Seti@Home

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Seti hit 4 MILLION Users today! That’s 4,000,000 for you guys across the pond.

I'm just wandering what you think how far we can count across the pond...
"Mmm, 1, 2, 3, many things..."

[dogscoff]

Seti hit 4 MILLION Users today! That’s 4,000,000 for you guys across the pond.

A million is a thousand thousand, wherever you are. It's the billion that the UK and US can't agree on. In the UK we liked to think of it as a million millions, but the US Version has always been a thousand million (just to make everything look bigger ).

Of course, the US Version is now becoming the standard, just like with everything else.

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Of course, the US Version is now becoming the standard, just like with everything else.

Not really. At least not on the Continent.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by dogscoff:

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Seti hit 4 MILLION Users today! That’s 4,000,000 for you guys across the pond.

A million is a thousand thousand, wherever you are. It's the billion that the UK and US can't agree on. In the UK we liked to think of it as a million millions, but the US Version has always been a thousand million (just to make everything look bigger ).

Of course, the US Version is now becoming the standard, just like with everything else.

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Are you guys joking? A billion doesn't mean a billion every where you go? What do you call a thousand million over there then?

Geoschmo

[sven]

It a "milliard"

See http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm for all sorts of other international number fun...

[Thermodyne]

I hit 10,000 units over the week end. Only 6900 and 20 more to get past.

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[Trajan]

I re-installed SETI@Home on my office machine and will add it to my old AMD 150MHZ machine, at home, which I generally never turn off.