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Re: Billions
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: Re: Billions
- From: CJ FINE <cbmvax!uunet!BRADFORD.AC.UK!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!C.J.Fine>
- Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1992 12:31:47 GMT
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "John Cowan" at Feb 12, 92 12:52 pm
- Reply-To: CJ FINE <cbmvax!uunet!BRADFORD.AC.UK!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!C.J.Fine>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!LOJBAN>
Thus John Cowan:
>
> Actually, 3 times 10 to the 15th power is incredibly terse in Lojban:
>
> pa mu gei ci
> one five [scientific] three
>
I was pleased to see this, which is not in any published material I have
seen.
Fascinatingly, I just today discovered a letter in Scientific American,
November 1970, in which Richard Feynman, no less, was advocating such a
system for English!
He wanted to write that as 3(sub)+15, read as "three
plofifteen". 3E-15 would be "three mififteen"!
kolin
c.j.fine@bradford.ac.uk