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The million-milliard system means a billion has double the zeroes compared to million, trillion has triple the zeroes, etc. In the English system, a quadrillion has 15 zeroes, so 4 times 3 plus 3? A quadrillion should have 4*6=24 zeroes.

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CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I must admit I still don’t see the point. Whether it’s double/triple/quadruple of a million or just 3*n+1 doesn’t seem to matter much. Of course it’d be better if a “thousand” was just called a “million” then, since that’d remove the +1, but the million milliard system doesn’t seem to have any notable advantages otherwise, especially considering every “iard” step is a .5 one, which isn’t much cleaner.

1,000 -> 3x0+1 zeroes

1,000,000 -> 3x1+1 zeroes

1,000,000,000 -> 3x2+1 zeroes

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1,000,000 -> 1x6 zeroes

(1,000,000,000 -> 1.5x6 zeroes)

1,000,000,000,000 -> 2x6 zeroes

(1,000,000,000,000,000 -> 2.5x6 zeroes)

1,000,000,000,000,000,000 -> 3x6 zeroes

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- guy@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  In the long system:
  Million - 1 000 000¹
  Billion - 1 000 000²
  Trillion - 1 000 000³
  
  Short system:
  Million - 1 000²
  Billion - 1 000³
  Trillion - 1 000⁴
  
  It just doesn't follow as smoothly with the increase in power
  
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