>> 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.

Yep that happens here with all my Japanese colleagues (I think they have 
words for 10e4 and 10e8 there).  At first I just thought they were really 
dumb because it took them 10 seconds to translate a number!  Our Japanese 
teacher (who is not technical at all) usually just gave up with big numbers!

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