Re: Asterisk progress

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxx>]

> > We also have a block of static IPv6 address allocated but
> >haven't found much use for them yet. With the staggering number of
IPv6
> >addresses that we have been allocated
(18,446,744,073,709,551,616!), we
> >can assign a static IP address to almost every object in the whole
town!
>
> In fact how do you say that number? SWMBO and I came up with:
>
> "Eighteen thousand, four hundred and fourty six trillion, and
then some"

<pedant mode>
Depends on whether you're using British/German or American/French
terminology. The British million
is 10^(1*6), billion 10^(2*6), trillion 10^(3*6), quadrillion 10^(4*6) etc
and the American million
10^(3+1*3), billion 10^(3+2*3), trillion 10^(3+3*3), quadrillion
10^(3+4*3).

So using British terminology the number is 18 trillion and then some, but
using American terminology
it is 18 quintillion and then some.

<rant>
British media now seem exclusively to use the American system though. I
guess "thousand million" is
too cumbersome for them compared to "billion" for 10^9.
</rant>
</pedant mode>