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what? the scientific community absolutely also uses billion and trillion by short scale it’s all over papers and nobody is ever using the long scale that i’ve
by whimsicalism 2y ago
what? the scientific community absolutely also uses billion and trillion by short scale
it’s all over papers and nobody is ever using the long scale that i’ve seen
- ivan_gammel 2y agoAre those papers in English? Long scale may be translated to short scale if the paper is translated from the original language where long scale is common.
- whimsicalism 2y agoyes, i'm talking about the scientific community - papers are almost exclusively published in english or with an english version. long scale translated to short scale would be a mistranslation, imo