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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by rhn_mk1 on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @02:45PM (#19617773)
It's hard to tell without referring to external sources. It could be either GeV or TeV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by eigenloss on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:12PM (#19618003)
BeV would never mean TeV outside of the UK.
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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by petschge on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:20PM (#19618071)
The long scale where "billion" means 1e12 is not that rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_sca...
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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by ascorbic on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:14PM (#19618500)
But hasn't been used in the UK for at least a generation.
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Re:Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accele... by Falcorian on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:06PM (#19618923)
Confusing, yes. In this case, it's GeV.
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