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Words / Re: Milliard and laminar - common?
« on: March 26, 2024, 08:03:51 AM »
Although I grew up with a billion being a million million, I had never heard the term milliard being used for what I just thought of then as being the peculiar 'American billion'. In my later technical life I transitioned permanently and somewhat reluctantly to the now universal billion. In that same technical life the word laminar was so common to me that I never thought of it as being particularly technical. I almost always see it in the word list. But I can see from the comments here how odd that is.