scott wrote:
> separate words for 10e9 and 10e12, so there is no such confusion.

And chinese uses steps of 10e5 or so, rather than 10e3.  My wife always has 
to spend several seconds mentally adjusting any number over 1000 she heard 
about, because (for example) 10,000 and 100,000 have their own words in chinese.

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