gigabecquerelHave I ever mentioned how much I hate the comma as decimal separator?
And don't get me started on a dot as 1000s separator
Sylke Krämer@gigabecquerel what I hate much more is this:
UK DE
million Million
billion Milliarde
trillion Billion
@gigabecquerel at least the dots and comma thing is consistent. But with the different naming conventions for the big numbers I’m doubting them every time when they come up in a news article because I don’t know whether the author knows about that difference. 🥴
@sylkeweb Oh, absolutely, 100% fuck that.
It always takes me an unreasonable amount of time to "translate" that
It always takes me an unreasonable amount of time to "translate" that
AllyPally@sylkeweb @gigabecquerel This is a good reason to use 10^6 or 10^9. No ambiguity.
@allypally @gigabecquerel absolutely!
Worthülse@sylkeweb @gigabecquerel As far as I can see there are two valid translations for the German word "Milliarde", though one is dated.
https://www.dict.cc/?s=milliarde
https://www.dict.cc/?s=milliarde
@worthuelse @gigabecquerel my son never learned milliard in his British school, it’s been out of use since 1974 according to this article:
https://blog.harwardcommunications.com/2013/05/21/the-difference-between-milliard-and-billion/
Thankfully we were away of this difference in naming the numbers when we moved to Germany when he was 12.
#NamingBigNumbers #LongScale #ShortScale #Milliard
https://blog.harwardcommunications.com/2013/05/21/the-difference-between-milliard-and-billion/
Thankfully we were away of this difference in naming the numbers when we moved to Germany when he was 12.
#NamingBigNumbers #LongScale #ShortScale #Milliard
@worthuelse @gigabecquerel also interesting in this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers