fafalone Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 I was appalled by the nomenclature on a recent Slashdot article, so I thought I'd make it clear so I don't have to see it here: DO NOT WRITE NUMBERS LIKE "ONE MILLION TRILLION TRILLION". These numbers make you sound like a moron. Call huge numbers by their REAL NAME. It's like little kiddies who don't know the proper names for things. NO After a trillion comes a quadrillion, NOT a "thousand trillion" or "ten thousand million" or any other asinine name. BILLION TRILLION QUADRILLION QUINTILLION SEXTILLION SEPTILLION OCTILLION NONILLION DECILLION UNDECILLION DUODECILLIN TREDECILLON QUATTORODECILLION ..and so forth. If you need to name a larger number, consult Google or me (I have a program that can name ANY number (ulimit = whatever can fit in a standard STRING variable), but don't post some asinine combination of those, or you'll get warned. Same for anyone caught naming numbers with "milliard" "billiard" and whatever else they use other places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Million = 10^6. Billion = 10^12. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iglak Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 MrL_JaKiri said in post # :Billion = 10^12. etc. umm... Billion = 10^9 (as i am sure you meant to say) Trillion = 10^12 etc... again P.S. feel free to edit Mrl's and delete this if you want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 iglak said in post # :umm... Billion = 10^9 (as i am sure you meant to say) Trillion = 10^12 etc... again P.S. feel free to edit Mrl's and delete this if you want Nope. Billion = 10^12. You're using the american system, which is an idiotic way of doing things. In that, the 'llion' part refers to 'Each time you multiply by 1,000, and then multiply by 1,000 one more time'; 'Each time you multiply by 10^6' is somewhat simpler, and makes more sense. '1. The cardinal number equal to 10^9. 2. Chiefly British. The cardinal number equal to 10^12.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 interesting that you mentioned numbers and google. there is a number idea called the "GOOGLEPLEX" a bit more info on it here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=googleplex not sure if that`s any use to you at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 There's a number called the Google, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Why do brits always have to screw up our units :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Who's language is it again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 it gives us something to do between cups of tea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 And scones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 mmmm...scones I love scones what i wouldn't give for one million trillion trillion scones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinch Paxton Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 Does a Nanbread come after a ten? Pincho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted February 14, 2004 Author Share Posted February 14, 2004 We will use the US number system on this site to avoid confusion. Billion is n*10^9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted February 14, 2004 Share Posted February 14, 2004 I like the british way even though they're wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted February 14, 2004 Author Share Posted February 14, 2004 you like 10^6 being million and 10^9 being milliard? iame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 dude, british system does make more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSX Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Better yet, use scientific notation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum Defect Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 or to pass time just write it in its entirety...no need for fancy names 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 well id rather win a billion from the brits than win a billion from ya yanks, but id just stick with scientific notation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt_f13 Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Werd.. I've gonnen confused. So one milliard is equal to 10^9 or one trilliard minus 10^6? But if you are really good at billiards you could use 10^-3 * ten million billion quadrilliards? Or is that wrong? In other words, could you post the british number wording system please? The *illiards are unfamilliar to me. And when exactly did it change over, since we all came from the Merry Old ever so long ago. (Well many of us in North America anyways.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iglak Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 those darn brits screwed everything up... but then the americans screwed it up worse... I VOTE METRIC!! (stupid english ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radical Edward Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 I prefer binary. 11110100001001000000 100110101100101000000000 1110100011010100101001010001000000000000 and so on. there is an interesting thing. Is there a formula relating to how many 0s there are at the end of that binary string, as we add zeros onto the decimal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 for each 0 you add at the end (least significant Bit) you effectively double the number. preceeding (leading) zeros are ignored but used anyway for maths and electronic purposes. I agree though, Binary`s a great system! it`s the only one I know of that will allow me to count up to 31 on one hand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Or Trinary, or Quadrinary, or whatever you call it. But when people say "billion trillion" I just think "bajillion." It's simpler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iglak Posted February 25, 2004 Share Posted February 25, 2004 Cap'n Refsmmat said in post # :Or Trinary, or Quadrinary, or whatever you call it. But when people say "billion trillion" I just think "bajillion." It's simpler. but a billion trillion is a LOT of whatever, while bajillion is like: WHOA! that's a LOT!!... i think. so... considering RNA (and DNA) is basically quatrinary, with 3 bit long bytes, i vote for quatrinary (but then you can only count to 11 on one hand, much lower that 31 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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