Only if you have a unit.
273 GW 👍
Else, looks kind weird, to my eyes anyway. But fair point haha
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dirkgentle@lemmy.ca 2 months agoMore like 273G in engineering.
Only if you have a unit.
273 GW 👍
Else, looks kind weird, to my eyes anyway. But fair point haha
Too bad people underuse it.
Separating the prefixes from the unities is very useful even in calculations where both are there.
You do you, but this is a big no-no from my point of view.
For example separating the prefix m from mm would be rather confusing, and look like another unit.
You can, however, put 10^x wherever you like 👍
Euros count as a unit 😏
3.5 G€
Ok, while I’m being facetious, let’s do it for dollars too. G$3.5… oh that’s horrible!
I’ve never seen that outside of videogames
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
TIL engineers use gazillion
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a highly technical term for “lots and lots.”