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Re:France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillio... by IanCal on Thursday July 04, 2013 @03:42PM (#5992152)
Could this be translated as "billions and billions" or "billions upon billions"?
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Re:France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillio... by dendory on Thursday July 04, 2013 @04:52PM (#5992385)
Literally it says billions of billions, but in context it most likely means billions upon billions.
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Re:France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillio... by mortehu on Thursday July 04, 2013 @07:19PM (#5992838)
Why? Petabytes seems like a more likely order of magnitude than gigabytes, doesn't it?

eta: From the article: "capable of managing dozens of petaoctets of data, in other words dozens of millions of gigaoctets"

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Re:France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillio... by bnegreve on Friday July 05, 2013 @03:35AM (#5993803)
Actually 'zillions' is probably the most accurate translation.
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Re:France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillio... by stack0v3erfl0w on Thursday July 04, 2013 @04:55PM (#5992398)
No. The correct translation is "billions of billions"
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