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Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu)

Posted by timothy on from the needs-to-merge-with-tumblr dept.

New submitter ffkom writes: European police organization Europol was probably jealous of the fame and popularity of the FBI's Most Wanted site, so they finally launched their own, European version. And if you want to know what a peaceful place Europe is, just consider this: You don't even have to kill anyone to get on the current "Most Wanted Fugitives" list. A mere fraud worth 12€ is currently enough to get you into this "Hall of questionable fame."

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  1. Not 12 euros... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...but 12,563 euros. Some European countries use "." instead of ",".

    Still not much in the grand scheme of things though!

    1. Re:Not 12 euros... by Z00L00K · · Score: 5, Informative

      Notice that the submitted story had it right: http://slashdot.org/submission...

      A mere fraud worth 12 k€

      After edited by timothy it changed to:

      A mere fraud worth 12€

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    2. Re:Not 12 euros... by arth1 · · Score: 4, Informative

      I've never understood the rationale for the non-US billion. Both 10^6 and 10^9 (and to a lesser extent 10^12) are numbers that come up all the time, why not have explicit names for them?

      Um, that is the rationale. There are names.

      Million = 10^6
      Milliard = 10^9
      Billion = 10^12 = million^2
      Billiard = 10^15 (and a game)
      Trillion - 10^18 = million^3 ... and so on

      It also makes it easier to figure out that a septillion is a million^7. Likewise, to go the other way, 10^30=10^6^5, i.e. a pentillion.

      The US short scale system has no good relation between the names and the actual numbers. A septillion in US terminology is 10^24 - where does the seven come in?