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1.5T JPY ⩯ 11.5G EUR ⩯ 13.6G USD ⩯ 9.9G GBP ⩯ 18.4G AUD

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I agree that this is a silly way to state this info, but it's hilarious to me how irritated it makes people.

G for Giga (10^9)? This confused me. I was expecting Billions (B)

Oh yeah I assumed the T stood for tera.

  ~> units '1.5 teraJPY' gigaEUR
  * 11.511012

What the heck is G ?

Gigaquids

surely this is taught in various science classes in every country?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

I have never seen anyone use metric prefixes with money.

Every now and again I'll talk to someone who uses kilobuck for various things. It's not common, but it's common enough that informal dictionaries have definitions for it.

My grandmother (who just passed away a few weeks ago) used to say "megabucks" a lot when talking about expensive things or rich people. I wonder if that's what she meant.

Metric prefixes aren't typically adjacent to numbers but space separated from the modified units in sciences (typical, the reverse is true), so, no, that usage isn't taught in most science classrooms.

Yeah, real helpful. Use (B) for billion not whatever G stands for.

Tera/giga are globally standardized; trillion/billion are ambiguous.

Aight, I'll ask my manager to raise my salary by a few kiloeuros.

Fucking ridiculous.

no really, billion has different meaning around the world. personally I’m a fan of gigabucks, way shorter to say than “billions of dollars”

Yup, the long and short scale[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale

In France, they use "milliard" for billions.

Amusingly I think he'd understand your request at least...

Have you genuinely never seen people refer to, say, $10k to mean ten thousand dollars? It's very common.

How are trillion and billion ambiguous?

"billion" in the US means 10^9, but in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, etc means 10^12.

Trillion means 10^12 in the US but means 10^18 in the above places.

Is this true even if you're speaking English in France? I would assume in English, it always means 10^9.

Is a billion a million million, or one followed by twelve noughts (1,000,000,000,000) or is a billion a thousand million?

Same thing for a trillion. I think the first is or maybe was a UK'ism. Maybe the rest of the world does that too?

Good bot.

Is it reading 1.5T yen as 1.5 Tera yen instead of 1.5Trillion yen?

Tera and Trillion gives the same number of digits, 12...

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