::: Ba is allegedly 47 Jupiter masses and 1,3 milliards of years old.

:: Is "milliard" a generally accepted English term for "billion" now?

: No it is not. People in the UK might understand it
: but North Americans will not.

fx gesture="hesitantly raises hand" Um. I understood it./fx
And last I knew, I lived in North America and all.
See, the "1,3" put me in a european frame of mind.

Though quite possibly *most* norams would not.
On some other appendage, google-enhanced norams would
not have a particular problem with it.


Wayne Throop http://sheol.org/throopw