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Is there an international standard for numbers?
I Googled 'International System for numbers' but got back some stuff about the base 10 system.
I was thinking more in terms of agreement regards the value of numbers.
This came up when I read online that a nonillion is 10^30 in the U.S but 10^54 in the UK.
This sursprised me as I thought it would be standardized by now.
I remember a billion being 10^9 in the U.S. but 10^12 in the UK*, but I see now that it's a uniform 10^9.
*If a billion used to be 10^12 in the UK, what was a trillion in the UK back then?
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What is your source please for: "... but I see now that it's a uniform 10^9."
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Sorry, Phil.
On closer inspection I see it's not as simple as that.
And I was being US/UK-centric.
I have now come across terms such as 'short scale' and 'long scale' and the word 'milliard' etc, etc.
But it does still seem that it's CLOSE to being a uniform 10^9, no? In that when we hear or read news on science and economics etc we hear of a billion this or a trillion that without any caveats about which VERSION of a billion or a trillion the source is referring to.
Although there's still the matter of 'nonillion'.
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