>Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. - Mitch Hedberg I know what you mean, and I sympathise that it's a difficult

>Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. - Mitch Hedberg I know what you mean, and I sympathise that it's a difficult problem. I suppose I tend to think of "a billion cubic metres" as more like one big cubic kilometre than a billion small things. There's some art to merging some numbers into units, but I don't know anyone who's solved it.