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Re:Why are there so many Canadians in India? by msla on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:05AM (#27023272)
> gets rid of the lakh/crore numbers and use million/billion instead (more scientific).

Million/billion is more familiar to non-Indians, but I don't understand how that system's more scientific.

Also, from your lack of milliard, I'm guessing you're advocating for the short scale:

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

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Re:Why are there so many Canadians in India? by chongli on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:31AM (#27023408)
It’s more scientific because science has standardized on SI [1] units with metric prefixes [2]. Above 10^9 and below 10^-9 you can see the exponents change by increments of 3.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

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