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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types" Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 22:37:02 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: <vt224e$16843$1@dont-email.me> References: <87y0wjaysg.fsf@gmail.com> <vsj1m8$1f8h2$1@dont-email.me> <vsj2l9$1j0as$1@dont-email.me> <vsjef3$1u4nk$1@dont-email.me> <vsjg6t$20pdb$1@dont-email.me> <vsjgjn$1v1n4$1@dont-email.me> <vsjk4k$24q5m$1@dont-email.me> <vsjlcp$230a5$1@dont-email.me> <vsni1v$291i3$5@dont-email.me> <vt13vp$bjs0$1@dont-email.me> <20250407211216.00006238@yahoo.com> <vt14u7$bjs0$2@dont-email.me> <vt1bmt$jf54$1@dont-email.me> <20250407234950.00006ee5@yahoo.com> <vt1ffu$moa6$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 04:37:07 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a82decdcecbf2be3578dae3b9c5284d3"; logging-data="1253507"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/jrDLl1MFTT63oayafiiFla2sVjoWCyog=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:CKa89cFPAk6I+C1KGgXvQKnxm2s= In-Reply-To: <vt1ffu$moa6$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2668 On 4/7/25 17:18, Janis Papanagnou wrote: > On 07.04.2025 22:49, Michael S wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 22:14:20 +0200 >> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote: .... >>> "In a few other languages"? - That was not my impression; >>> and a quick look into Wikipedia seems to support that. >>> >>> The global map[*] is interesting! >>> >>> (Read the articles for the details, the historic base, and >>> especially what's standard in countries, and why the common >>> standard is in some cases like GB not used primarily today.) >>> >>> Janis >>> >>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/World_map_of_long_and_short_scales.svg >>> >>> Green - long scale >>> Blue - short scale >>> Turquoise - both, long and short >>> Yellow - other scales >>> >> >> I think that this map misses one important detail - majority of "blue" >> non-English-speaking countries spell 1e9 as milliard/miliard. >> I.e. for that specific scale they are aligned with "green" countries. >> If you don't believe me, try google translate. > > I cannot tell whether google translate is sufficiently authoritative. I would consider Wiktionary to be more reliable for that kind of thing.