Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four

• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TIL engineers use gazillion

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a highly technical term for “lots and lots.”

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• MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Only if you have a unit.

  273 GW 👍

  Else, looks kind weird, to my eyes anyway. But fair point haha

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Too bad people underuse it.

    Separating the prefixes from the unities is very useful even in calculations where both are there.

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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 👍

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  • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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!

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve never seen that outside of videogames

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