Notice that in the Google translate version 10.8 billion kroner is translated to 10.8 billion dollars.
Google Translate often does that :-)
Google Translate often does that :-)
A Danish, Norwegian, Swedish ("biljon" ) billion is 10^12, a US billion is 10^9. It's utterly confusing sometimes, and this is one of the fewer cases where US metric makes much more sense.
US: million, billion, trillion. 10^6, 10^9, 10^12
Skandinavia: million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard 10^6, 10^9, 10^12, etc
PS: I don't know about the rest of the world.
Google correctly translates the Danish original "milliard" to the US "billion". A 5 (Danish) billion kroner fine would be higher than our total GDP.
> this is one of the fewer cases where US metric makes much more sense.
Don't see that. A bi-llion is million million. A tri-llion is a million million million. Makes perfect sense to me.
I think I have almost never in my life (in Norway), seen "Billiard", "Trillion" or "Trilliard" used anywhere.
I'm not arguing expressibility. It's just different names. I just found the system my country uses (long scale) to be less intuitive than the one used by the US (short scale).
Just take a look at the comparison [1], and make up your own mind on what is intuitive, and what not. I'm not saying you or anyone is "wrong". I find it hard to see good reason for the long scale, but I'll entertain arguments.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Long_and_short_sca...
Why is the million the base unit? Numbers are always written in groups of thousand, not million.
Sorry, but in this I agree with okamiueru - the short scale system makes much more sense.
No, it's not.
A currency is a unit, a scale-factor. It can only be translated if you also translate, i.e. re-compute, the corresponding measure (the number itself).
I would classify this a major bug, the reasonable thing if they don't want to fix it (since fixing it requires reaching out to a time-dependent currency conversion table, it might be a non-desirable thing to do) they should just not translate that part at all. Then it becomes up to the reader to go back and look up the currency in question, instead of just thinking it's already been done.