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SI prefix words are just kind of silly. We should just use the exponent as a number instead of having a different word for every 3 zeros. 10.7 E15 Wh or somethi
by Veserv 2y ago
SI prefix words are just kind of silly. We should just use the exponent as a number instead of having a different word for every 3 zeros. 10.7 E15 Wh or something similar.
Scales to everything, you do not need to know any mapping, and directly supports mathematical manipulation.
We should also do the same for large number words in general. No thousand, million, billion, etc. E3, E6, E9, etc. Now you can count and represent any meaningful number without needing to memorize a dictionary of words and they would precisely match the unit scale “words”.
- ant6n 2y agoYou mean 1.07E16
- vermilingua 2y agoIt's pretty common in some contexts to only use Es for powers of 1000, so 100,000,000 is 100e6 rather than 1e8.
- SAI_Peregrinus 2y agoThat's commonly called engineering notation.
- rabidrat 2y agoI agree! I use ^3 etc for the notation: https://saul.pw/mag https://saul.pw/mag