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95 Gazillion dollars?!?!?

• jefftk 4y ago
  "G" for "Giga", 1e9.
• reikonomusha 4y ago
  "giga-dollars" i.e. 1 billion dollars
  • lemoncucumber 4y ago
    I prefer to use gibi-dollars ($1073741824)
• djbusby 4y ago
  I read "Giga Dollars". To remove the ambiguity of Million, Billion, Millard, Long Million and Short Million perhaps.
  • airstrike 4y ago
    Hmm.. but there's no ambiguity in "billion"? There's certainly less than in "giga dollars"
    • djbusby 4y ago
      Billion is different in Short (10^9) vs Long (10^12) scale. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
      • airstrike 4y ago
        The short scale isn't a thing in English or when talking dollars which is implied by the dollar sign in "$95 billion" and the fact that this is a US company "$95 billion" simply means $95,000,000,000.00 and there's no ambiguity...
        • djbusby 4y ago
          A thread on HN yesterday regarding Credit Suisse where this ambiguity came up. That thread was in English and was about US Dollars.
          • kaashif 4y ago
            Are you talking about this comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35152388 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35152388 That doesn't read like anyone is actually confused over the meaning of "billion" , it seems like people are just speculating on whether this error is long/short scale confusion between languages. Personally, I think it was just a typo - there is no conceivable way that a billion CHF could ever be a million USD regardless of the scales used... Apologies if you're referring to a different comment.
• fnordpiglet 4y ago
  Inflations a monster