News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Zimbabwe offers new exchange rate: $1 for 35,000,000,000,000,000 old dollars. Parent comment

Re:Zimbabwe offers new exchange rate: $1 for 35,000,000,000,... by white-flame on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:15AM (#9704770)
No, quadrillion in the common short scale:

  35,000 = thousand
  35,000,000 = million
  35,000,000,000 = billion
  35,000,000,000,000 = trillion
  35,000,000,000,000,000 = quadrillion
In the long scale, this would be a "thousand billion" (or apparently also a "billiard" according to wikipedia), so not a quintillion there either.

It boils down to denoting thousands of thousands, not just the raw number of triplet zeros in the number.

[ Parent | on HN ]

There are no comments on this comment yet.