Thread: Confessions: How I hate billions
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Old 30-March-2008, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by AndreasJ View Post
You don't understand right. A long-scale trillion is (million)3, that is 1018, so "only" a million times larger than the short-scale one.
Thanks. But now it's no more logical than the 'Murican way. Just incrementing by 1E6 each time instead of 1E3.
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