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CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours agoI must admit I still don’t see the point. Whether it’s double/triple/quadruple of a million or just 3*n+1 doesn’t seem to matter much. Of course it’d be better if a “thousand” was just called a “million” then, since that’d remove the +1, but the million milliard system doesn’t seem to have any notable advantages otherwise, especially considering every “iard” step is a .5 one, which isn’t much cleaner.
1,000 -> 3x0+1 zeroes
1,000,000 -> 3x1+1 zeroes
1,000,000,000 -> 3x2+1 zeroes
vs
1,000,000 -> 1x6 zeroes
(1,000,000,000 -> 1.5x6 zeroes)
1,000,000,000,000 -> 2x6 zeroes
(1,000,000,000,000,000 -> 2.5x6 zeroes)
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 -> 3x6 zeroes
guy@piefed.social 13 hours ago
In the long system:
Million - 1 000 000¹
Billion - 1 000 000²
Trillion - 1 000 000³
Short system:
Million - 1 000²
Billion - 1 000³
Trillion - 1 000⁴
It just doesn't follow as smoothly with the increase in power