• BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    they might be in one of those weird places where a billion is a million million instead of a thousand million and got threwed off

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      2 days ago

      Every Indo-European language other than english:

      10^6 = Million
      10^9 = Milliarde
      10^12 = Billion
      10^15 = Billiarde

      But the 100KK > 10M works in both systems.

    • ngdev@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      is that like base 1000 math? that would get me threwed off somethin fierce