Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Datasheet-flation? Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:05:19 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <1r3hwoc.n2yk211k1an2yN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:02:45 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c9ee5e53a8112b36b5fc8e19d3f78479"; logging-data="2004588"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Dp8XSbJDuJnN2n1NowgNj" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:B+udi/k/qenYhbDO2ISVIG8fRf8= Bytes: 2232 On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:02:07 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote: >Waldek Hebisch wrote: > >> Don Y 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.