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I put it down to them being american. But apparently its also the accepted count beyond the known billion (1 million million) million.
Why doesnt it turn into 1K c?
If by 'american', you mean 'modern english', then yes. The nomenclature represented is the modern standard used in the USA, Canada, UK, and Austraila.
In case anyone happens to be interested... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
It doesn't because the nomenclature continues beyond e67. I only know it up to the vigintillions, but I have seen the much larger ones. It gets confusing...and kind of pointless when we have access to scientific and engineering notation. For instance, most people probably think the 'c' represents 'centillion'. Nope. e67 is a long way from one centillion. If it were to continue being logical, the representation would need to be 'uv' for 'unvigintillion', then duo, tre, quatro, etc.
Anyway. The lettering system works okay if you know the names. But, it's still not as good as either scientific or engineering notation.
Yes american. This was forced upon us in the decimalisation in 1973. I am old. :)
Just like it is american to eat outside, fast food and not around the dining room table. American how shops are now open on a sunday etc. It doesn't make it non american just because modern british people use it my son.
and sci notation is for maths where you dont have to write out huge numbers
so its just a nerd thing as well as easy once you get it down
unless you want to remember all the lame numbers up to a googleplex
e=x10 1e1 = 10
not to diff
I prefer sci, or eng notation vs short aka the long names for crap like advent cap uses
As for why the prefixes stop at some point, they just get unwieldy with big numbers, especially with all the repeated starting letters. While the names of big numbers are standardized, the prefixes aren't. And one approach to this is to just give up at a certain point and use scientific notation.
int x = 1E1; would make x = 10; and it would be an integer, because the 1E1 will be converted to int . When the compiler sees the 1.0, it automatically becomes one of the floating point types. So 1.0e1 is 10 which is the same as 10.0.
thats cap E btw
x=10 so again
1e1 = 10 in sci notation. or 10.0
messing in hex be fun
and yes most games use it to the 000 vs 00
this is due to numbers getting to long or high.
but its still vastly better than short or standard, at least until you pass the bill or trill mark and dont know the number system we never use in standard maths, but do in most physics or theoretical maths
The original post referred to 1k (1 thousand) as 1e4, but 1e4 = 10k (10 thousand). And this error carried forward into everything after it as well. 1M (1 million) is 1e6, not 1e7. 1B (1 billion) is 1e9, not 1e10. And so on.
Still stopped at e70 tho xD
I wasn't going against the mathematical terminologies. I wasn't really going against the new number way either (which I call american). All I was making a point about is British culture changed heavily in the 70s/80s due to the (well two things)
a) Tories wanted to be "closer allies" with america.
b) we had then lib-lab coalition near the end of the 70s that wanted globaliisation.
In the 80s it was more conservative with conservative americans wanting to make london/NYC power houses once more (like they were in the 1930s)
And in the 90s when gloablism took a hold on american/british companies so much so we started getting our manufactoring done in the far east.
A british billion is not the american billion (which is smaller). Hence why we think there are more rich people in the world, but they are not. If you revert back to imperial numbers (I think they call them), most of the rich list wouldn't be billionaires.
Currently i'm at 50T gold, that equals 5e43, so the "T = 1e43" line is incorrect