xkcd #3102: Reading a Big Number

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de⁩ to ⁨xkcd@lemmy.world⁩

[desperately] Maybe this is from some country where they use commas as decimal points, and also as digit separators after the decimal, and also use random other characters for decoration???

explainxkcd.com/3102/

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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Isn’t there also Indian way where it alternates between 2 zeros and 4 zeros?

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- schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  it’s mentioned in the explainxkcd, so apparently
  
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muhyb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Zimbabwean people would say otherwise. :)

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- Iceman@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Dr. Evils hates this one simple trick
  
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overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
For me it’s 54,000,000,000 then my brain just glosses over the rest of the zeros. You could literally put other random symbols in the later digits number and I won’t see them.

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