Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft

Re:Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft by petercooper on Monday September 15, 2014 @10:09AM (#8318957)

Well, for a centimillionaire. Spending less than 2% of his then net worth (more like 0.2% now though) on his main property was relatively modest. No jets, cars, helicopters, $200m+ London homes.. he seems to spend more time noodling with Dart than spending his money ;-)

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Re:Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft by sib on Monday September 15, 2014 @11:00AM (#8319279)

Not important, but you probably mean "hectomillionaire" - a centimillionaire would be someone worth $10,000.

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Re:Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft by adventured on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:41PM (#8320584)

No, he meant centimillionaire / centi-millionaire. It's a common term referring to a nine figure net worth.

Centi can designate 100 of something or one-hundredth of something.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centi-

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire

http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2012/11/12/breaking-d...

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Re:Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft by samatman on Monday September 15, 2014 @12:12PM (#8319703)

I would accept 'centillionaire', because 'centillion' strikes me as a decent way to say one hundred million. A centurion is not 1/100th of an urion.

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Re:Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft by kaoD on Monday September 15, 2014 @12:38PM (#8319828)

Apparently 'centillionaire' is already taken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centillion

"One centillion is a number, which is equal to either 10^303 or 10^600, depending on the system used."

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