Every story and comment from the Hacker News API, in a layout borrowed from 2001.
A comment on Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times. Parent comment
Maybe bbillion pronounced b-billion would be better.
And to add confusion, note that UK English had
1e6 million 1e9 thousand million 1e12 billion (million million)
I think this has mostly consolidated to the US usage now
There are no comments on this comment yet.
Maybe bbillion pronounced b-billion would be better.
And to add confusion, note that UK English had
1e6 million 1e9 thousand million 1e12 billion (million million)
I think this has mostly consolidated to the US usage now