On 05/20/10 18:12, Darren New wrote:
> 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.

	Eh. I wasn't referring to the vagaries of the Chinese number system naming.

	To give you a clue, 5e3 is not 125.

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