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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] SI == Système Internationale d'unités == international system of units == metric system And I got those numbers because that's just the way it works out. Obviousy, that's not what they were thinking when they made the words up. "Million", of course, did come from the word for a thousand w/ a suffix added to it. And "billion" was created from the word "million", but using "bi-" meaning "two". After that "two" got in there, it just got extended using "tri-", "quad-", "quint-", "sex-", and so on. Of course, the British system is basically the same, except that each increase in the suffix means you're multiplying by another million, rather than another thousand. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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