Yeah... Think about our trillion is, and hang on now:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Talk about a wild number... 18 zeros.
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Yeah... Think about our trillion is, and hang on now:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Talk about a wild number... 18 zeros.
The threat to the world economy is actually very important. Not as important as such a loss in human life, but still very important.
If we lose 3 billion (3,000,000,000) people, then the other 3 billion will be fighting amongst themselves in an economy of anarchy.
The threat to the economy just means that those living will also be in dire straits.
BTW,
english
million = 1,000,000
billion = 1,000,000,000
trillion = 1,000,000,000,000
quadrillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000
quintillian = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
sextillion (or is it sectillion)
than septillion
octillion
than I don't know.
Are you serious?Quote:
Originally Posted by Divinus Arma
I sencierly doubt that even a 1000 people would get killed.
This entire thing has been seriously dramatised anyway.
I'd bet this flew has been around for some time,only now it's getting some serious media attention.
And as for that sientist:
Even those guys want to get in the news every nowe and then you know?
that isnt english, that is american :book:Quote:
english
million = 1,000,000
billion = 1,000,000,000
trillion = 1,000,000,000,000
quadrillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000
quintillian = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
sextillion (or is it sectillion)
than septillion
octillion
than I don't know.
Wasn't is so that there was an higher percent of people dying of the (normal) flue than of the bird flue? At least that's what I picked up somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Upxl
No, bird flu kills a little more than 50% as it is, I think it is 98 of 177 so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gertgregoor
And these are even young, healthy and strong people. Normal flu shouldn't be deadly in most cases, but since it is so widespread each year (you can say we have epidemics of it each year), we get a whole lot of dead victims.
Mostly it is 'just' elderly and infants though.
For instance we get about 1500 flu deaths each year here in Denmark (5.2 million inhabitants). But I suspect we have perhaps 500,000 cases of flu, so it isn't particularly deadly.
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Couldn't we just use SI names?Quote:
BTW,
english
million = 1,000,000
billion = 1,000,000,000
trillion = 1,000,000,000,000
quadrillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000
quintillian = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
sextillion (or is it sectillion)
than septillion
octillion
than I don't know.
"It is possible that the bird flu will cause 3 gigadeaths." See, simple.
an english bilion is a million million there is a clear progression:
1 = one
10 = ten
100 = a hundred
1000 = a thousand
its then seems quite efficient to reuse these words for the thousands
then after the thousands
1 000 000 = a million
again you reuse the max no of previous words then
1 000 000 000 000 = a billion
this makes the most sense to me as it makes large numbers easyer to deal with, if you use this system progressively.
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 = a Byzantine Mercenary! :laugh4:
No. An English Billion is a thousand million.
What is one hundred million? 100,000,000
What is one hundred multiplied by ten? One thousand: 1,000
What is one hundred million multiplied by ten? One billion: 1,000,000,000
A million million would be a trillion. heh. this has become ridiculous.
Give up, and submit yourself to the power of the SI.
All you need to know is: many zeroes = gazillion
Traditionally the 'British billion', or long scale billion, was a million million, and in the 'short scale' a billion was a thousand million. However, the short scale is the one most commonly used in Britain today. Different countries use different scales.
well i keep with the old British billion which is not a thousand million, 1000 million is what you guys call a billion, but i stick with 1 000 000 000 000 as a billion and as i said 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 is now a byzantine mercenary :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Divinus Arma
must have micked up something wrong then. :embarassed:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraxis
Or start using the superior system of -ard. :idea2:Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Mark
Of course it was invented by a Frenchman so that'll never happen :wall:
Mmmaybe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gertgregoor
I heard it to somewhere.
But I do believe that the birth flew is more deadly.
If it evolved into a man to man virus then there could indeed be a high amount of deads.
And if we let it go it's own way maybe it could indeed kill 50% off humanity.
If an epidemic strikes now it would be worse than the plague or so.
It would spread global much faster then say a couple of hundred of years ago.
But this is only the worst case scenario.
So no need to go looting just yet.
anyway if it did happen it wouldn't have to be a bad thing anyway.
After all the world could use a good cleansing.
Besides the toll of deaths I believe would be much higher in the eastern parts of the world.
No worries there then.:2thumbsup:
:no:Quote:
Originally Posted by Upxl
Then who are our children going to sew footballs for? :embarassed:
point :inquisitive:
"May we live in interesting times times" :oops:
Oh well, you have about 100% chance of dieing anyway, and considering the difference (50 years ?) isn't much on a a cosmic scale, I don't worry too much :laugh4:
Aye, Life is a terminal, sexually transmitted disease, with 100% mortality. ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by doc_bean
As someone once said (I think it was my father actually):
"Life is dangerous, you die from it... Somebody should arrest it."
I'll be laughin when your dead.:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Upxl
But then again I'll most likely be dead with you.::sad2:
Well thats to bad then.:book:
See you guys when the bird flu gets me.:2thumbsup:
I know that German has it differently to the Americanised english as well...
One million = Eine Million
One Billion = Eine Milliarde
One Trillion = Eine Billion
Somewhere, sometime someone messed up. :dizzy2:
wiki on the long and the short scaleQuote:
Originally Posted by _Martyr_
Look at the time-scale.
It's obviously an evil plan from the French to make the Americans look bad. :idea2: That the British is falling to it too makes it even better. :laugh4: