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Except that it's a terrible word because milli means thousand, and ard just means a grammatical modification. So all that accomplishes is conflating thousand
by lupire 3y ago
Except that it's a terrible word because milli means thousand, and ard just means a grammatical modification.
So all that accomplishes is conflating thousand with million with billion.
(Of course "million" is already a conflation of "thousand"!)
- seabass-labrax 3y agoOh, good point... Right, back to the drawing board - how about "kilocount" for a thousand, "megacount" for a million, and "gigacounts" for a (short) billion? The prefixes were apparently resurrected from the Greek for use in the metric system, but haven't had any other contradictory meanings as far as I can tell. I know I'm mixing up the Greek and Latin roots with "-count", but "kiloarithmos" is two syllables too many!