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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 05/19/10 09:51, Darren New wrote:
>> 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
>
> Wow. Another one. I wonder how long this has been going on without
> people noticing.
>
> I recently bugged a guy at work for doing this.
Heh. It's rather confusing to *me* when she starts talking about "there was
at first a hundred thousand people, then a thousand thousand people!" and
similar convolutions. We don't have a word for ten thousand as such, or I'm
sure it would get even more confusing instead of just a pause while the
translation goes on.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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