Re: CHAT: Measurements (was: Re: CHAT: browsers)
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 13, 2003, 20:22 |
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Tristan wrote:
> I suggest banning them. I rarely use them. If I mean a thousand million,
> I say a thousand million. If I mean a million million, I say a million
> million. It means you have to be a bit more careful, but it's easier to
> read out 102 293 848 483 284 592 184 856 (umm... thousand, million,
> billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, what comes after
> quintillion..? sestillion?... so... one hundred and two sestillion, two
> hundred and etc... is rather a complex way of doing it), and gives you a
> better impression of of how big the number is.
But it's so wordy to say "a million million million million" instead of
"septillion". In fact, whenever I see things like "million million" I
have to mentally convert it to "trillion".
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