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Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown by ZYinMD on Sunday March 13, 2022 @08:26AM (#30660641)
OK, so what you mean is, million and mega happen to share the initial, and trillion and tera happen to share too, but billion and giga happen to not share an initial.
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Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown by 8note on Sunday March 13, 2022 @03:24PM (#30664816)
Also, the metric prefixes are used cross language, and the ms, bs, and ts aren't the same cross language
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Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown by tester89 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @05:45PM (#30666048)
Yeah, might’ve been a coincidence
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