TeraHertz machine?!?!

[akshatp]

It seems possible

Link

 

[Beau]

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48439,00.html?chkpt=zdnnh111601tn

linkied

 

[Beau]

But would that be trillions in american standard or trillions in metric standards??? If it was metric... good lord that'd be fast!!!

 

[BeauJangles]

good lord! Can't wait

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

What??? Metric and Standard don't matter when you're counting with numbers....

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how is that different between metric/standard!?

 

[Jzero]

In the us, 1bln = 1000 million (1,000,000,000)
In the uk, although somewhat outdated, 1bln = 1 million x 1 million = 1 US-style trillion (1,000,000,000,000)
It scales up from there, too, I believe.
trillion is 1M^3, quadrillion 1M^4.

Thus, a THz to an old britisher sounds like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

<< In the us, 1bln = 1000 million (1,000,000,000)
In the uk, although somewhat outdated, 1bln = 1 million x 1 million = 1 US-style trillion (1,000,000,000,000)
It scales up from there, too, I believe. >>

:Q:disgust:

 

[Beau]

Yeah.. that's how it works... .I was watching a british-made film on the formation and age of the earth. They were spouting off numbers like two-thousand-million-years-ago (20,000,000,000). totally threw me off. US = twenty billion years

 

[Jzero]

Those brits.
I haven't replace my tyres in a thousand million days.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

<< Those brits.
I haven't replace my tyres in a thousand million days. >>

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