xkcd: the Money Chart. Oh my goodness.

Scuba

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Mon Nov-21-11 05:03 PM
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xkcd: the Money Chart. Oh my goodness.

http://xkcd.com/

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surrealAmerican

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Mon Nov-21-11 05:20 PM
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1. k & r

It looks interesting although it's very hard to view on my laptop.

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RevStPatrick

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Mon Nov-21-11 05:30 PM
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2. Spoiler Alert!!!

"Estimated total economic productivity of the human race (so far): $2,396,950,000,000,000"

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onethatcares

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Mon Nov-21-11 05:43 PM
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4. what's the word they use for that?

gabazulaillion?

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Pab Sungenis

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Mon Nov-21-11 06:11 PM
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5. Quadrillion.

Million = 1,000 thousand.
Billion = 1,000 million.
Trillion = 1,000 billion.
Quadrillion = 1,000 trillion.

Then quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion.

By US measurements, of course. British versions are logarithmic.

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Jim Lane

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Mon Nov-21-11 10:06 PM
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7. British usage now largely parallels ours.

You're talking about the difference between the short scale (in which a billion equals a thousand million) and the long scale (in which a billion equals a million million). Wikipedia states:

For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United Kingdom uniformly used the long scale,<3> while the United States of America used the short scale,<3> so that the two systems were often referred to as British and American in the English language. In 1974, the government of the UK switched to the short scale, a change that is reflected in its mass media and official usage.<4><5><6><7><8><9> Although some residual usage of the long scale continues in the UK,<10><11> the phrases British usage and American usage are no longer accurate characterisations. (from the Wikipedia article )

BTW, both scales are logarithmic, just with different bases (a thousand versus a million).

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Jumping John

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Mon Nov-21-11 05:39 PM
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3. Thanks

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PoliticAverse

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Mon Nov-21-11 06:15 PM
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6. That's gonna take some time to digest... n/t

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