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minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-27 个月前For which use case? Is the billion = a million million standard, or is the thousand million standard? Also how did we end up with two standards of such a basic numerical name? Edit: their original comment read “Non-English Anglosphere,” hence my first question not making much sense any more.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 个月前English->English French->American Due to US market size, theirs is becoming more standard. Like metric, the US swapped to the French version because of their hate of the British following the split.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 个月前Ok, see I knew French and Latin used the 1000 of the previous magnitude word is the next magnitude word, I wasn’t sure if that was standard or not. Seems that it is the Brits who changed things.
For which use case? Is the billion = a million million standard, or is the thousand million standard?
Also how did we end up with two standards of such a basic numerical name?
Edit: their original comment read “Non-English Anglosphere,” hence my first question not making much sense any more.
English->English
French->American
Due to US market size, theirs is becoming more standard.
Like metric, the US swapped to the French version because of their hate of the British following the split.
Ok, see I knew French and Latin used the 1000 of the previous magnitude word is the next magnitude word, I wasn’t sure if that was standard or not. Seems that it is the Brits who changed things.