Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> To most people, "million", "billion" and "trillion" are almost 
> interchangeable terms.

> But you know what? As far as I can tell, almost nobody mixes up a 
> kilowatt and a megawatt.

  In the same way as nobody mixes up a thousand and a million.

> Nobody confuses centimetres with millimetres. 

  In the same way as nobody confuses a hundred with a thousand.

> No one has trouble with a gram and a kilogram being very different 
> quantities.

  In the same way as no one having trouble distinguishing between 1 and
a thousand.

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                                                          - Warp

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