HW: ex. 30 p. 193

10⁹ = ten to the ninth = ten to the power of nine = kymmenen potenssiin yhdeksän
10¹²
a billion
a milliard

Prior to the sixteenth century, people couldn't count probabilities. (Ennen 1500-lukua...)

LUKUSANOISTA:
1) nolla
a) zero
It is - 5 centigrades. (five below zero)
b) / ou / O
Daniel Graig was 007. double-O seven
c) nought
How many noughts are there in a billion?
d) in tennis, badminton & squash: love
Björn Borg was leading 30 - love.
e) nil
Real Madrid beat Ajax three - nil.
f) duck in cricket
g) nothing: He was just nothing to me. 

2) Shakespeare wrote The Twelfth Night. (= Loppiaisaatto suomeksi)

3) pai = 3.14159(englannissa on DESIMAALIPISTE)
1,000,000 = a million (tuhannet erotetaan pilkulla)

4) Eila Roine passed away at (the age of) 94.

• 5) She was a 94-year-old actress. 
• She was 94 years old when she died.
•  He caught a five-kilo salmon. He caught a salmon that weighed five kilos.
  I read a 900-page novel. I read a novel that was 900 pages long.
• 6) sanontoja: It was love at first sight. On second thought, I could come to your party. (= tarkemmin ajateltuna...)

7) Eila Roine was born in 1931. (= vuonna 1931)

8) The siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE...
CE = Common / Current Era = jaa
AD = Anno Domini = jKr
BCE = Before Common / Current Era = eaa
BC = Before Christ = eKr

exercise 34 page 200:
7. In the late 1940s
8. in the early 1980s
9. in the late 1980s
10. In 1997
11. in the early 21st century = in the early 2000s
6. In the late 1940s
7. in the early 1980s
8. in the late 1980s
9. In 1997
10. in the early 21st century = in the early 2000s

ennustaa:
predict (v.): The likely consequences of my actions were easy to predict.
foretell, foretold, foretold: I went to the fortune teller who foretold my future.
foresee, foresaw, foreseen: Can you foresee what will happen?
forecast, forecast, forecast: Pekka Pouta forecast the weather on TV yesterday.

when it came to his gambling
= as for his gambling
= as to his gambling
= as far as his gambling was concerned