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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by dragontamer on Monday August 26, 2019 @03:33PM (#20802919)
Interesting.

Myriad shares similarities to "Million". So maybe Myriad / Biriad / Trilliad / Quadrilliad will scale into the higher orders.

Hmm, maybe I'll make this a thing.

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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by roywiggins on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:44PM (#20803561)
Not to be confused with the long-scale numbers: milliard/billiard/trilliard
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