Personally I prefer the long scale because you have to memorize half as many prefixes.>Just use scientific notationShut up
just use scientific notation
just use SI prefixessmall brain: a trillion <things>Galaxy brain: one Tera<thing>
S3xNillion
>>16857880That reminds me of:deci-thermitecenti-thermitemilli-thermitemicro-thermitenano-thermiteAnd of:deci-thermatecenti-thermatemilli-thermatemicro-thermatenano-thermate
>>16857980Which ones did the ___ish ___s use on 9-11 to demolish WTC 1 and 2?
>>16858054>WTC 1 and 2Or rather WTC 2 and 1.Since they demolished WTC 2 first.
>>16857864This 6.0*10^1 second cool down is rough. Anyway going to travel 2.00*10^2 miles back home. Should take me about 4.5*10^0 hours.
>>16857880When it comes to lengths how come we stop at kilo? We never say megameter just a million meters or a thousand kilometers.>The distance to the Sun is 150 gigameters>The distance to Proxima Centauri is 400 petametersWe never hear this.
>>16857877>I'm not a millionaire>I'm Megaman
>>16857848Left side:>sextillion>sexdecillionRight side:>sextillion>sextilliardSo which side has better sex, scientifically speaking?
>>16858228Sexdecillion is also used in the long scale but it represents 10^96 which is a bigger number than sexdecillion in the short scale which is 10^51 so I think the long scale wins.
>>16857848remember when making a million was big time? now it is just how the shittiest tiny house in the gheto costs, simply epic
>>16857848Bro you're outdated.Large numbers are now measured in Graham's and TREE(n). Better learn about graphs, Minor Theorem and such things.
>>16858064(6.0,1) seconds(2.0,2) miles (really anon)(4.5,0) hours (anon, plz)Seriously half-assed that one, anon. Commit to the joke.
>>16858187>au, light-year, parsecWe're weird like that.
>>16857848I stick to the short scale mostly for familiarity, but the long scale does have some logic to it.But when I have to go for a really big number, I go for the Conway-Guy convention for namesor switch to magnitudes of the exponent in scientific notation (ex. 10^50 -- mag 50)
>>16858201>I'm in HUGE debt>Call me Negaman
>>16857864Scientific notation is kind of pointless when you're trying to demonstrate addition by reading numbers out loud during a public presentation.>>16857848The Long Scale is the naming system where Billion means a million millions, which does not make sense because billion is very commonly implemented in economics and physics as now, and Milliard is often used for a thousand millions. It is the standard in most of continental Europe today (dare I say, Fr*nch old academia). It was also the official system in the UK until 1974. Short scale is the standard dictionary terms, at least most of them are, and I prefer them as such.
>>16858353>The Long Scale is the naming system where Billion means a million millions, which does not make sense because billion is very commonly implemented in economics and physics as now, and Milliard is often used for a thousand millions.>The long scale doesn't make sense because the financial sector uses the short scaleMan what a great argument.Let's say you wanna be able to name numbers up to 10 to the power of 63. This is how many prefixes you'll have to memorize in each system and as you can see there are a lot fewer in the long scale.Let's say you are able to name all prefixes in the left column then you would be able to name numbers up to 10 to the power of 123 in the long scale. It gives you a bigger range with less prefixes. If you wanted to reach the same range with the short scale you'd have to learn another 20 more prefixes.
>>16858201>i have one dollar, I am broke> have $1,000,000, I am megabroke
>>16858735kek
>>16857895nice
>>16858054damn those elvish druids!
>>16861484>elvish druidsay?But what if the following is true?1st ___ = 2nd ___
