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Is it 1 billion in long scale or small scale?
by pedro2 4y ago
Is it 1 billion in long scale or small scale?
- ginko 4y agoLast I checked there weren't 10^12 people living on earth just yet.
- pedro2 4y agoI honestly didn't know that. One gets used to short scale on the Internet.
- hansel_der 4y agoit's about 1MMM
- sgjohnson 4y agoWhy would it be in long scale? Is long scale even used in english at all?
- pedro2 4y agoIt was a joke. But it made me realize, thanks to the comment above, that Earth's population is around 8 thousand millions, and not 8 billion as I'd come to believe.
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- bitdivision 4y agoFor anyone wondering what that is, English uses short-scale, i.e. 1 billion = 1000 million, some other languages / countries use long-scale i.e. 1 billion = 1 million million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
- tremendo 4y agoSmall scale. Where I grew up a billion had 12 zeroes, nowadays it has 9. It's a thousand millions, not a million millions.