Re:Bringing emulation into the 21st century (2021)
by majormajor on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:37PM
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I was hoping this would be an actual confusion about "million million" billion vs "thousand million" - https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-61... - I got very confused with my grandfather about this once.
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Re:Bringing emulation into the 21st century (2021)
by masswerk on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:01PM
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Thank you! As a continental guy, I wasn't quite sure myself, when and how the UK joined this madness. In all fairness: adopting metric on the one hand, but also US billions on the other hand, is a bit odd, not to say, confusing… Is this the British idea of diplomacy? :-)