Re:No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted...
by hpcjoe on Saturday September 09, 2017 @02:01PM
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This is stylistic. It's basically setting a scale factor for you, that this isn't a small breach, but a noticeable fraction of a billion. I could have written it as 1.34E+08 though fewer people would have understood this, though it would have been as correct. 134 Million is obviously "alot", though from a psychological perspective, the billion gets more attention than the million, even though the number isn't changing.
Again, stylistic.
So 134 Million then. I mean that's still an extreme amount of bits ofc. Just seems silly to use the "billion" signifier for something that is less than 1 billion.
Likewise it'd be strange to call something "1000 milliunits" instead of just 1 unit. (Unless ofc milli happens to be the frame of reference for some obvious reason like "15 millunits of x is a deadly dose".)