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Re:California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that a... by chrisseaton on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:10AM (#28470546)
Nonsense.

> The meaning of the word "million" is common to the short scale and long scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000

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Re:California aims to ban recycling symbols on things that a... by conistonwater on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:07PM (#28471974)
If you're going to use the scientific notation for billions, you should just use it for everything. I don't think it's so obtuse anyway, it's exactly how I'd spell that number in code.
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