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Re:Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug by quarterto on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @10:34AM (#5674308)
Also, basically no-one uses the long scale anymore. Which is a shame. -illiard is a fantastic suffix.
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Re:Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug by adlpz on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @10:44AM (#5674376)
Well, if no-one is pretty much all the non-english-speaking world, then yes.
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Re:Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug by yen223 on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @10:53AM (#5674441)
The Chinese don't use the long scale either, at least not in this form - we count in magnitudes of 10,000.
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Re:Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug by adlpz on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @11:14AM (#5674630)
I wasn't aware of that. To be sincere, I also made the mistake of looking too close home. I was mostly talking about the non-English-speaking 'western hemisphere'.
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Re:Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug by apetresc on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @11:25AM (#5674732)
So are thousands of billions called billiards? :)
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Re:Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug by ahomescu1 on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @02:40PM (#5676012)
Yes, it appears they are. In long scale it's million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard etc.
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