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That would be interesting, if we had to use longer words. Like officially change billion to gagillion. Only two extra letters, but it feels bigger Edit: I orig
by dec0dedab0de 5y ago
That would be interesting, if we had to use longer words. Like officially change billion to gagillion. Only two extra letters, but it feels bigger
Edit: I originally had one extra letter, thanks jrd79
- snewman 5y agoI'm not sure this would help. The error was likely in thinkspace, not a literal typo. The real problem is when people toss around numbers without deeply understanding them. I don't think there's any simple fix for that. You simply can't reliably funnel information through a channel as narrow as a single number, nor the equivalent short phrase of number words.
- jrd79 5y agoTwo extra letters. Numbers matter :).
- kbutler 5y agoOne extra? Maybe bbillion pronounced b-billion would be better. And to add confusion, note that UK English had 1e6 million 1e9 thousand million 1e12 billion (million million) I think this has mostly consolidated to the US usage now