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Much less interesting but I've worked in teams where "zillion" is a shorthand for "followed by all the zeroes that fit in a word of the size we're talking about
by bjackman 7y ago
Much less interesting but I've worked in teams where "zillion" is a shorthand for "followed by all the zeroes that fit in a word of the size we're talking about". So 8 zillion is 0x80000000 if we're talking about a 32 bit address space.
- metalliqaz 7y agoi'm stealing that
- evanb 7y agoThat's weird because 3 zillion is more than 28 zillion.
- oh_sigh 7y agoYou could have enforced reduction rules so that the only valid zillion value is [0-F].[0-F]...
- beefield 7y agoAnd one zillion equals ten zillions...
- codetrotter 7y agoAnd also one hundred zillions, and even one zillion zillions.
- manojlds 7y agoYeah ok, we got thay from the parent comment.
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- zzo38computer 7y agoIf you use the Rogers system rather than the Magnusson system then it is not equal, I think.
- waynecochran 7y agoFunny how the same informal-isms crop up in disparate teams -- I've heard/used the same thing.
- bjackman 7y agoYeah although we would probably have said "two eight zillion" not "twenty eight zillion", and in the kind of conversations we'd have, it wouldn't really matter. "Where is the stack base supposed to be?" "O X 8 zillion" "Oh, the system crashed with stack pointer at 0 X two eight zillion, something must have gone badly wrong!"
- schoen 7y agoIn that case, you could pronounce the :: in IPv6 addresses ("fill with zeroes") as "zillion" if it appears at the end of the address! (I don't know how people pronounce that operator otherwise... I just say "colon colon".)
- JohnFen 7y agoI have yet to need to recite an IP6 address out loud, so I don't know how I'd say it. I'd probably just recite it digit-by-digit (which is pretty much how I recite all numbers anyway).
- ummonk 7y agoSo like 4 zillion will be more than 5 zillion (assuming talking about unsigned 32 bit)?
- ummonk 7y agoOh I guess you'd say 05 zillion ("oh-five zillion").