Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place

Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by vorg on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:25PM (#10230665)

You seem to live in a base-tenny world. Many nerdies train themselves to do hex mental math in kindergarten, and the geekies do it base-36 because those extra letters "are there". So perhaps a 256 to 1296 multiplication ratio (those 2 numbers there are in base 10).

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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by tlarkworthy on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @10:39PM (#10231282)

the order of magnitude is well known to be defined in base 10. That's regardless of your base of choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude

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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by ant6n on Thursday September 17, 2015 @10:19AM (#10233462)

I've only heard of people talk about binary orders of magnitude; hexadecimal no

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