Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:58:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:58:33 -0400 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237]:57079 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:58:32 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <20020731131620.M15238@lustre.cfs> References: <20020731131620.M15238@lustre.cfs> To: "Peter J. Braam" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BIG files & file systems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:01:56 +0100 Message-ID: <6811.1028203316@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 962 Lines: 25 braam@clusterfs.com said: > (you don't want to know who, besides I've no idea how many bits go in > a trillion, but it's more than 32). It all gets a little confusing after 'million'. Either you mean a US 'trillion', which is a European 'billion'; 10^12. Or you mean a European 'trillion', which is a US 'quintillion'; 10^18. In general, it's best to stick to the numeric form if it's greater than 10^6. With the possible exception of using 'milliard' for 10^9, which may cause the recipient to have to look up the word, but won't cause it to be misinterpreted as 10^12 by non-usians. http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:rwJFJLB7ZnoC:www.reportercentral.com/reference/vocabulary/numbernames.html -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/