(OT) Understanding million, billion, trillion..... - Page 7

 


Many people can count -
      but only a few people do anything that truly counts.


LOL. Yes -- Time is money -- as the old saying goes!
However, in a capitalistic society
                  a Billionaires' time is worth more than a pauper's
time.
So 12 trillion dollar is not that much when
          it is compressed into Wall Street's Billionaire's money-to-
time-space-singularity.



Correction
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Science is a methodology
  which looks to understand data by using
  theory/law/hypothesis
  but it is *good* data that really reigns supreme -
           the  data is never assumed.
                   a clean scientific data is always true.

Sir Issac Newton  might say it like this -
              Unlike Man, Nature obeys its own laws.

In theory, humans should be smarter than a cockroach
              - but there are always exceptions. (9_9)

Science provides a framework whereby
       careful inquiry can lead to an expanded knowledge base.
  which is improvement
        over guessing or assuming something is true.

Note:
   Mathematics/Logic is the discipline of choice (not Science) for
those who seek to prove something.
   For those that want to avoid assuming the truth,  there is Fuzzy
Logic/mathematics,
   where rather than assumed there are thing that are true - the truth
lies in a gray area between true and false.

 



A "billion" is not used for most scientific purposes.

The US defines it as a thousand million.
The UK defines it as a million million.
It use is restricted to financial activities and even then it's often
expanded to make the meaning clear.

Using the term is an invitation to misuse and confusion.

 

On 2/14/2010 3:51 PM, Winston_Smith wrote:

I agree....should have made a note that it applied to US only....
no excuse...

have fun....sno

--
Correct Scientific Terminology:
Hypothesis - a guess as to why or how something occurs
Theory - a hypothesis that has been checked by enough experiments
  to be generally assumed to be true.
Law - a hypothesis that has been checked by enough experiments
  in enough different ways that it is assumed to be truer then a theory.
Note: nothing is proven in science, things are assumed to be true.