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Whats with people lately writing 10^6 instead of 1 million. Its not that big that we need exponents to get involved.
by avery17 3y ago
Whats with people lately writing 10^6 instead of 1 million. Its not that big that we need exponents to get involved.
- rijx 3y agoErosion of education makes basic scientific knowledge very trendy
- jcparkyn 3y ago- The comment is referring to a graph that used 10^6 on the vertical axis, which is a very common way to format graphs with large numbers (not just "lately"). It's also the default for a lot of plotting libraries. - 10^n is more compact than million/billion/etc, more consistent, easier to translate, and doesn't suffer from regional differences (e.g. "one billion" is a different number in Britain than in the US). I'm not saying it's clearly better than "million" in this specific case, but it's definitely not clearly worse.