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Side tangent: Why are most of her numbers, except dates, spelled out? Is this some convention specific to her country of origin or something?
by JoBrad 5y ago
Side tangent: Why are most of her numbers, except dates, spelled out? Is this some convention specific to her country of origin or something?
- platz 5y agoThis is a transcript of the video embedded below. Some of the explanations may not make sense without the animations in the video.
- tsimionescu 5y agoWhich numbers are you referring to? "3 billion" instead of "3,000,000,000"? That could just be efficiency of typing (not to mention, German uses , and . inversely from English: Pi is 3,1415... in German writing, while a thousand is 1.000).
- CurtHagenlocher 5y agoYes, but a German billion isn't the same as an American billion either... .
- JoBrad 5y agoI was thinking of this paragraph. However, after I re-read the article, it seems that there are other numbers that aren't spelled out. Maybe it was an auto-transcription? > Already in nineteen-ninety-one they found the Clowes-Campusano-Quasar group, which is a collection of thirty-four Quasars, about nine point five Billion light years away from us and it extends over two Billion Light-years, clearly too large to be compatible with the prediction from the concordance model.