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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by vijayr02 on Monday April 08, 2019 @11:56AM (#19606360)
bbl is market jargon for barrels, not billions of barrels...
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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by jessaustin on Saturday April 13, 2019 @11:26AM (#19653518)
That's goofy, most abbreviations drop letters rather than adding them.
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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by NullPrefix on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:12AM (#19623519)
So why not use the same for both numbers?
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