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This is the difference between the long number system and the short number system: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://simple.wikip
by CountSessine 4y ago
This is the difference between the long number system and the short number system:
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
The long system makes vastly more sense, but in the English world we use the short system, except of course for the English themselves who used to use the long system and tragically regressed to the short system officially in the 1970's.
Of course, in my perfect world, we would use neither because we'd be using base-12: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
- lotsofpulp 4y agoWhy does the long system make vastly more sense? $1k, $1M, $1B, $1T, $1Q seem like pretty quick and easy abbreviations for all amounts of money that are commonly dealt with, at least for US or European currencies.
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- googlryas 4y agoThey both seem extremely arbitrary: Short scale: A short n-illion equals 10^(3n + 3) Long scale: A long n-illion equals 10^(6n) and a long n-illiard equals 10^(6n+3)
- xeromal 4y agoHow does it make vastly more sense? I think incrementing by a 1000 is vastly more simple than 1000 or million. It doubles the amount of names which may be useful scientifically but in a layman's world, we don't really use things past a billion.