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1.5T JPY ⩯ 11.5G EUR ⩯ 13.6G USD ⩯ 9.9G GBP ⩯ 18.4G AUD
by jtvjan 5y ago
1.5T JPY ⩯ 11.5G EUR ⩯ 13.6G USD ⩯ 9.9G GBP ⩯ 18.4G AUD
- tppiotrowski 5y agoG for Giga (10^9)? This confused me. I was expecting Billions (B)
- jtvjan 5y agoOh yeah I assumed the T stood for tera. ~> units '1.5 teraJPY' gigaEUR * 11.511012
- bserge 5y agoYeah, real helpful. Use (B) for billion not whatever G stands for.
- p1mrx 5y agoTera/giga are globally standardized; trillion/billion are ambiguous.
- bserge 5y agoAight, I'll ask my manager to raise my salary by a few kiloeuros. Fucking ridiculous.
- jazzyjackson 5y agono really, billion has different meaning around the world. personally I’m a fan of gigabucks, way shorter to say than “billions of dollars”
- r00fus 5y agoAmusingly I think he'd understand your request at least...
- phaemon 5y agoHave you genuinely never seen people refer to, say, $10k to mean ten thousand dollars? It's very common.
- sedatk 5y agoHow are trillion and billion ambiguous?
- hackeraccount 5y agoIs a billion a million million, or one followed by twelve noughts (1,000,000,000,000) or is a billion a thousand million? Same thing for a trillion. I think the first is or maybe was a UK'ism. Maybe the rest of the world does that too?
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- acchow 5y ago"billion" in the US means 10^9, but in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, etc means 10^12. Trillion means 10^12 in the US but means 10^18 in the above places.
- notJim 5y agoIs this true even if you're speaking English in France? I would assume in English, it always means 10^9.
- nathancahill 5y agoGood bot.
- sdze 5y agoWhat the heck is G ?
- the8472 5y agosurely this is taught in various science classes in every country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
- dragonwriter 5y agoMetric prefixes aren't typically adjacent to numbers but space separated from the modified units in sciences (typical, the reverse is true), so, no, that usage isn't taught in most science classrooms.
- colinmhayes 5y agoI have never seen anyone use metric prefixes with money.
- reportingsjr 5y agoEvery now and again I'll talk to someone who uses kilobuck for various things. It's not common, but it's common enough that informal dictionaries have definitions for it.
- jagger27 5y agoMy grandmother (who just passed away a few weeks ago) used to say "megabucks" a lot when talking about expensive things or rich people. I wonder if that's what she meant.
- danw1979 5y agoGigaquids
- Nbox9 5y agoIs it reading 1.5T yen as 1.5 Tera yen instead of 1.5Trillion yen?
- froh 5y agoTera and Trillion gives the same number of digits, 12...
- notJim 5y agoI agree that this is a silly way to state this info, but it's hilarious to me how irritated it makes people.