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They raised two gillion??
by iab 4y ago
They raised two gillion??
- akavi 4y agoG => SI prefix for 10^9
- trimbo 4y ago"2 Gs", in the US at least, means "two thousand" (G as in Grand)
- ghaff 4y agoI wouldn't immediately parse that abbreviation in the US--but if I did I'd parse it as G being shorthand for grand. More commonly 2Gs would be used for 2x the normal force of gravity--i.e. you weigh twice as much.
- marcosdumay 4y ago> More commonly 2Gs would be used for 2x the normal force of gravity--i.e. you weigh twice as much. That's a lower case g.
- ghaff 4y agoAs with many things I never expect others to be respecting arbitrary style guides when they write something. (Same reason I wouldn't use semi-weekly or biweekly.)
- marcosdumay 4y agoThe guy went to the trouble of adhering to the guide, appending the unity at the correct place, and contextualizing it so it's clear. It's everybody here that is getting out of their way to avoid understanding the number.
- Oxidation 4y agoAlso G (uppercase) doesn't have units that result in G$ being a plausible quantity even if you could combine number-unit quantities and use like a unit like that (which you can't for this exact reason): dollar-cubic metres per kilo per second per second. It's also rather small.
- wongarsu 4y agoAnd in many places M stands for thousand, from Latin "mille" (as well as the Roman numeral). That doesn't keep people from counting in kilo-, mega- and gigadollars. Still less confusing than dealing with short vs long scale numbers in translation.
- fallingknife 4y agoWhich is why you see millions of dollars often abbreviated as $5MM, to avoid the confusion with single M.
- winphone1974 4y agoSo 2 gigabucks, gotcha!
- boeingUH60 4y ago$2.4 billion - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flexport/company_financials https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flexport/company_fin....
- fallingknife 4y agoG$ - > gigadollar. Not exactly standard, but I like it.
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- winphone1974 4y agoI prefer gigabucks, but tomato, tomatto
- slt2021 4y agois 1 Gigadollar = 2^10 Megadollars? or did op mean Gigidollars = mere 1e3 Mebidollars ?
- dilyevsky 4y agoTwo googols
- secondcoming 4y ago2 Gigadollars. For wages that's 1000^3, for taxes it's 1024^3.