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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation?
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:05:19 -0800
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:02:07 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

>Waldek Hebisch <antispam@fricas.org> wrote:
>
>> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>> > The data "sheet" for the new processor I'm using is ~16,000 pages.
>> > (note carefully the position of the comma separator)
>> 
>> In my country people would ask why are you putting decimal
>> comma in a number that is supposed to be an integer?
>
>It's a convention used in banking and accountancy to divide the '0's
>into groups of three and make them easier to count with less chance of
>error.  It is also used by newspapers and sometimes in ordinary
>correspondence but very rarely in scientific communications, where the
>10^x notation is preferred.  The decimal divider in English is the
>full-stop [American: "period"]

>
>Also be aware that the term "Billion" means a million million
>(Bi-million) in English but only a thousand million in American and
>French..  Most English people seem ignorant of this and use it
>incorrectly with the American meaning.

Units, thousands, millions, billions, trillions makes sense. 1000:1
steps.

Unless you mean national debts, where quadrillions are the next step.