NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity at a Personal Scale

Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a... by Avtomatk on Thursday October 01, 2020 @12:11PM (#24652614)

After a thought experiment I was able to determine the meaning of "billion":

- It can be said that there are one thousand million (1,000,000,000)

- It can be said that there are ten thousand million (10,000,000,000)

- It can be said that there are one hundred thousand million (100,000,000,000)

But it cannot be said that there are a million million (1,000,000,000,000), it is said that there is a "billion".

- Then, there may be a million billion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000)

But there cannot be a billion billion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), it is said that there is a "trillion"

- Then, there may be a million trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)

- There may be a billion trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)

But there cannot be a trillion trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), you say "quadrillion", and so on...

Translating this with the google translator has been hell, every time I typed "one thousand million" and "million x" it translated into "billion", and every time I typed "billion", it translated into "trillion".

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Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a... by umvi on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:32PM (#24655252)

I don't think that's quite right

one thousand thousand (1,000 * 1,000) == one million (1,000,000)

one thousand million (1,000 * 1,000,000) == one billion (1,000,000,000)

one thousand billion (1,000 * 1,000,000,000) == one trillion (1,000,000,000,000)

Basically "one thousand ____" means "add 3 zeros"

one million million (1e6 * 1e6) == one trillion (1e12)

one million billion (1e6 * 1e9) == one quadrillion (1e15)

Basically "one million ____" means "add 6 zeros"

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Re:NIST Pair of Atomic Clocks Reveal Einstein's Relativity a... by Avtomatk on Saturday October 03, 2020 @09:43AM (#24672050)

And... where is the error in my comment?

I just skipped the sequence: one thousand billion, ten thousand billion, one hundred thousand billion so as not to lengthen my comment and I did it by jumping to the millions directly.

Google translator makes a creeper with the "billions", read my comment in english.

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