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The human-readable big numbers amiguity problem

Open couchand opened this issue 11 years ago • 1 comments

It won't be too long before people will have earned more than one quintillion dollars (for all I know some people may already have, I'm a few weeks away at best), then eventually, sextillion and septillion.

These all suffer from an ambiguity in the current human-readable scheme: is $1Q one quadrillion or one quintillion? Is $1S one sextillion or septillion?

I can't wait until I've earned my first decillion.

couchand avatar Nov 05 '13 15:11 couchand

Qa is Quad and Qi is Quint.

I would assume Sx is Sex and Sp is Sept.

MichealRein avatar Nov 06 '13 03:11 MichealRein