[Linux-aus] Re: Billions (was: [Talk] All your base are belong to SCO (ITHO) (was: the gloves come off))

[david.newall at auug.org.au]

David Lloyd <dlloyd at microbits.com.au> wrote:
>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <Greg.Lehey at auug.org.au> wrote:
>> >> That would be $3B; $1G is universally understood as $1,000
>> >
>> > Not in this part of the universe.
>>
>> Rubbish. A G is a Grand is a thousand dollars.  Always was; probably
>> always will be.
>
> A "G" is a thousand dollars, yes. But I don't think Greg was commenting
> on a "G". I thought he was commenting on the billion bit.

Oh?  I figured his, "this part of the universe," referred to my
"unversially understood."  Was I wrong, Greg?  If so, sorry.