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Subj: Million,Billion in the past.
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From: G0TEZ@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
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In the 1950, in the UK, the buzz word was "atomic".
We had all kinds of atomic energy exhibitions which I went to as a boy.
It got me quite interested and I started reading the New Scientist.
Even a small island which we had become, with people going hungry, had to
keep up with the 'arms race'.
We had to research and build our own atom bombs and later the hydrogen
bombs as the Americans refused to let us have any nuclear technology,
despite us sending them all ours during WWII.
WE managed to afford linear accelerators, cyclotrons and synchro -
cyclotrons. These were measured in MeV ans BeV. Million electron Volts and
Billion electron Volts.
Part of my puzzlement comes from the BeV accelerators, were they using the
US or the European Billion ?
Such things do matter in science when a factor of 1000 is involved.
I presume that the payments we had to make to the USA for the cost of WWII
were in American billions, especially the $6.8Bn loan we had to repay, the
one which took us til Christmas 2006.
I really hope that was a $US 6.8 Bn :-)
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7FCR
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