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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by ben_w on Saturday May 11, 2024 @02:50AM (#40326481)
That's a reason to not use Latin; but when it comes to numbers and scales… I was surprised to discover that other people are themselves often surprised when they learn that a billion is a thousand times larger than a million.
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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by closewith on Saturday May 11, 2024 @03:10AM (#40326543)
Which is itself a relatively recent standardisation. Up to the '70's, a billion could beat thousand million or million million depending on where you were.
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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by Toutouxc on Saturday May 11, 2024 @09:41AM (#40327990)
Which standardization? The world is still very much split between the long and short scale (and other systems)

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

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