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Wait until we need to talk about billions!

• quectophoton 2y ago
  How to forget one of the holy wars of natural languages, with half the world using it to mean "one million million", and the other half using it to mean "one thousand million". Still less confusing than "mph" (I always read it as "meters per hour" and have to go back to correct myself).
  • sulandor 2y ago
    babylonian confusion costing real lifes
  • flexagoon 2y ago
    > Still less confusing than "mph" (I always read it as "meters per hour" and have to go back to correct myself). I always read "mph" as miles/hour and "m/h" as "meters/hour"