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minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoEven in the US, science is mostly metric. But most US people are not exactly the scientific kind…
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoUntil you start looking at old stuff and have you figure out if they were working with the “millions scheme” or “thousands scheme,” and if “1 billion” is equal to 1012 or 109 https://www.affixes.org/numberwords.html
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThat’s why you have methods of writing like 10x.
Even in the US, science is mostly metric. But most US people are not exactly the scientific kind…
Until you start looking at old stuff and have you figure out if they were working with the “millions scheme” or “thousands scheme,” and if “1 billion” is equal to 1012 or 109
https://www.affixes.org/numberwords.html
That’s why you have methods of writing like 10x.