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>> And you were never curious as to why you never saw any amounts between
>> $999m and $999999m written anywhere? Anyway, you know now :-)
>
> Well, actually a never read the kind of material where you might ever see
> such numbers at all, so... ;-)
You must of at least seen or heard the headline of MS bidding to buy Yahoo?
That involved some number of billion dollars.
BTW, what you thought a billion was, 1e12, is such a big number that you
would never really see it applied to money. The largest companies in the
world don't even sell close to $1e12 worth of stuff. Only the largest 12
countries in the world have a GDP of above $1e12.
> I think "million" and "billion" already sound way too similar for numbers
> of vastly different sizes. Most people really don't notice the difference
> between them.
What makes you think that? Not noticing the difference could lead to some
pretty embarrassing situations - I've never witnessed anything like that.
> I wonder what the hell people will call it when 4 terabyte drives become
> common. MB => meg, GB => gig, TB => ???
terra?
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