A Guy with Millions of Posts ?????

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  1. yfs1

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    #21
    Nintendo - US Billions and European Billions are different (well, in the UK although many other countries seem to use the alternative) ;)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion#Synonyms
     
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  2. SumitBahl

    SumitBahl Reign of Chaos

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    #22
    <Totally irrelevant and useless trivia>

    A billion, in America, is a thousand million. That would be written
    1,000,000,000
    If we wanted to make a book with a billion dollar signs, printed 1000 per page as before and with pages printed on both sides, our book would be 500,000 pages long.Now that's a very long book!
    Interestingly, in England, the British define a billion as a million million. That would be 1,000,000 times 1,000,000 which would be written 1,000,000,000,000. The British book would be 5,000,000 pages long.
    1,000,000,000,000

    A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into perspective in one of its press releases:

    A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

    A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

    A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

    A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.



    </Totally irrelevant and useless trivia>
     
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  3. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    #23
    Not in the England I live in. Vodafone posted a £14.8 Billion loss the day before yesterday, in my book that's 14 thousand million.

    In Holland we use Miljard (Milliard) for 1000 million and then Triljoen (Trillion) again for million million. It will be confusing to express my net worth in a few years :D
     
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  4. SumitBahl

    SumitBahl Reign of Chaos

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    #24
    hummmm.....

    Source was http://www.punahou.edu/acad/sanders/geometrypages/GP10BillionEtc.html
     
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  5. yfs1

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    #25
    This is exactly my point...Why do you English have to make it so confusing?

    Wheres Ken Jennings when you need him!!
     
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    maldives Prominent Member

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    #26
    He must be crazy nut.
     
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    #27
    How dare you talk about Ken Jennings that way :mad:
     
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    #28
    wow. so there IS something beyond Wind Rider. :D
     
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  9. Crazy_Rob

    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    #29
    In case it wasn't mentioned, that is a VB bug.

    Status: Confirmed
     
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  10. yfs1

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    #30
    I'm pretty sure no-one thought he really had a billion posts :cool: :p
     
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    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    #31
    You never know! Some douche started a thread asking about it so....


    :p
     
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    #32
    I didn't start the thread, someone else did but it put my name to it. It's a vB bug

    Status: Confirmed Hosebag
     
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    #33
    When will the brits start speaking english anyways??
     
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    Mong ↓↘→ horsePower

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    #34
    btw he has no become most most most powerful member because he can give you enough Green blocks with just one hit :p
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    #36

    'Scuse me?!

    I delete SPAM! :rolleyes:
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #37
    I know... I'm just giving you a hard time. ;)
     
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    DomainMagnate Illustrious Member

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    #38
    I always knew it was Rob's fault
     
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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    #39
    Supplementary question: Has Nintendo ever actually BEEN to band camp?
     
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    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    #40
    er what is band camp??!!! :D:D

    Yo, Crazy_Rob, can you soft delete two of my posts via inline moderation...and don't touch my new post count...until I rep 10 people!!! Amit could use some massive negitive rep right now. :D:D
     
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