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non_saturatio

@stux
Side topic: I've in fact been informed that 'billion' means differently in different parts of the world. Here it's a million millions, but in America it's like... a thousand millions? Something like that? Anyway confusing for International conversations 🤭

15 Dec 2022 at 10:34 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.online
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Just an innocent man

@non_saturatio @stux that used to be the case (British Billion vs American Billon) but by convention it's now 1000 million everywhere because it was giving mathematicians a headache ;-)

15 Dec 2022 at 10:41 | Open on mstdn.social
non_saturatio

@chrisgn
Oh! Then now 'billion' and "billón" doesn't mean the same anymore, although Spanish definition includes an entrance for the USA meaning.

dle.rae.es/bill%C3%B3n
@stux

15 Dec 2022 at 10:51 | Open on mastodon.online
Losfromcp

@non_saturatio @chrisgn @stux I remember as a kid being corrected to say "mil millones".

15 Dec 2022 at 11:06 | Open on mastodon.world
non_saturatio

@losfromcp
Really? :))) I wonder what huge thing was the kid you talking about.

I guess it's language economy somehow. It's more economic to reserve the "different" term for the longest phrase, so we substitute "millón de millones" better than "mil millones". Also you can use "trillón" para "un millón de billones" and so on.
How do you say "a million of millions of millions" in English?

Nvm, I'm going dizzy omg lol
@chrisgn @stux

@losfromcp
Really? :))) I wonder what huge thing was the kid you talking about.

I guess it's language economy somehow. It's more economic to reserve the "different" term for the longest phrase, so we substitute "millón de millones" better than "mil millones". Also you can use "trillón" para "un millón de billones" and so on.
How do you say "a million of millions of millions" in English?

15 Dec 2022 at 12:21 | Open on mastodon.online
Losfromcp

@non_saturatio @chrisgn @stux hahaha 😆

I was talking about the number of Transformers I wanted. Living in the US, I was using the English definition and my mom used it as a teaching moment

15 Dec 2022 at 14:05 | Open on mastodon.world
Sanscelerien_

@non_saturatio @stux
See here about the short and long scales of large number notations.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of
And in this other page you can see a map showing were the short and long scales are used.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and

15 Dec 2022 at 12:47 | Open on mastodon.social
Eric Hendrickson 🏳️‍🌈 📺 🐧

@non_saturatio @stux In the US a billion is one thousand million or 10⁹, but in some EU countries, it is 10¹², or a million million, which in the US is called a “trillion”.

It is very confusing since there seem to be no standards for labeling large numbers.

#million #billion #trillion

15 Dec 2022 at 13:46 | Open on sfba.social
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