Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Which one, the long scale or the short scale, do you think makes more sense?
(In the long scale, 1 billion = 1 million million)
What exactly are you asking? Also, 1 billion = 1000 million.
This is the scale we are using known as the short scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Long scale on the other hand, is used by continental Europe.
Short scale makes more sense because it helps describe numbers that we care about concisely, probably why it became widely adopted.
However, if the inflation keeps shooting up unchecked, in very short order we might have had to revert to long scale, lol
I think some deep sea-going fish are big proponents of the long scale, but most freshwater fish prefer the short scale.
Europe's preference for the long scale is probably traceable to their history with dragons and such, a species all proficient in adaptation and utilization of the long scale.
Hope this helps. Get back to me if you need more.
Interesting