> ... which means that 4.7 billion people in China have only less than 2 dollars per day to subsist.
Um. Did somebody misplace a decimal point?
Um. Did somebody misplace a decimal point?
In english we have single words for, 100, 1000, 1000000, 1000000000.
Indians have a word for 1000000. The commas just serve to make a numbers more readable, thus in chinese there are 4 digits between the commas.
It is hard to argue that one system is better than another, but English has the nice property that 2^10 ~= thousand, 2^20 ~= million, 2^30 ~= billion, 2^40 ~= trillion. So i'd argue that English is superior in this respect. Chinese Big-to-Small for dates and many other things is vastly superior to English. Chinese date format is 2015-02-15, and address format is Country, Region, City,Street, number.
They have the following primary designators:
一 One 十 Ten 百 Hundred 千 Thousand 万 Ten Thousand 億 Hundred Million 兆 One Trillion
Given the following when considering the max allowed value of a specifier:
10002000 - 1000万2000千
The next significant digit:
100020003000 - 1000億2000万3000千
Next:
1000200030004000 - 1000兆2000億3000万4000千
Everything cleanly breaks down into larger sets of 4 digits.