[amsat-bb] Re: Arecibo on 432 MHz Moon Bounce (some calculations)

[Idle-Tyme]

On 4/21/2010 8:25 PM, i8cvs wrote:
>> Comma or no comma, shouldn't matter
>> 1000 mega watts or 1,000 Mega watts  is still one thousand million
>> watts!  NOT one thousands watts.  true?
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> Hi Idle-Tyme
>
> I don't agree with your statement:
>
> 1000 mega watt are one thousand million watt
> 1,000 mega watt or 1.000 mega watt is only one million watt because
> zero after the comma  means nothing like 1,0000000000000 is still
> one million watt or 1 MW
>    
NO!  it's a comma, not a decimal point! it's one thousand,  one thousand 
written 1000 or 1,000 is still one thousand they are exactly the same.