Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ll allow billion, but personally my preference is using powers of 10 or unit prefixes.

  Just I’m not gonna be mad about the newspaper writing 3.5 billion dollars.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless that number means something different from US$ 3.5e9.

    If you are one of those people that think your country uses the other “billion”, just don’t.

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Touche, yeah, I’d totally be on board if everyone just uses $3.5*10⁹ or $3.5e9. Good luck getting it catch on outside eng/science circles though haha

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• dirkgentle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  More like 273G in engineering.

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only if you have a unit.

    273 GW 👍

    Else, looks kind weird, to my eyes anyway. But fair point haha

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Too bad people underuse it.

      Separating the prefixes from the unities is very useful even in calculations where both are there.

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      • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You do you, but this is a big no-no from my point of view.

        For example separating the prefix m from mm would be rather confusing, and look like another unit.

        You can, however, put 10^x wherever you like 👍

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    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Euros count as a unit 😏

      3.5 G€

      Ok, while I’m being facetious, let’s do it for dollars too. G$3.5… oh that’s horrible!

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve never seen that outside of videogames

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TIL engineers use gazillion

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s a highly technical term for “lots and lots.”

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