On Sun, 01 Dec 1996 10:31:53 +0100, you wrote:
>I read that the NHS costs 40 billion a year.
>
>Is that 4,000 million (4,000,000,000) or
>
>4 million million (4,000,000,000,000) ?
>
>Doctors are defrauding the NHS of 60m a year
>(allegedly). I need to know whether this
>represents 1.5% of the total budget or a mere
>0.0015%.
>
>Sorry for all these questions this weekend but
>I'm really a rather dim sort of chap.
>
>:)
None of the above !
It's 40 thousand million - 40,000,000,000
(American definition of billion, strictly speaking).
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