is 55 thousand million a real number?

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Guys, 55 thousand million is 55 billion. Double fail.

And I got the downvote

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Guys, 55 thousand million is 55 billion. Double fail.

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It's still hard to think where the 55,000 goes in relation to the millions place.


It took me three times to get it.

The 000 in the 55,000 goes in the millions place and not the billions place.

55 then is billion.


My ONLY GUESS as to why the author used the numbering in this way is to make it more accessible to people's brains in considering large numbers.

Like, there's no way you know what a billion looks like. It is hard to fathom. you can fathom a million. And you can fathom 55,000...so 55,000x a million in debt should be fathomable?

It's the same as 55 thousand trillion pennies.

Sense not pennies. Get it wright.

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Does any country or culture ANYWHERE use place values this way or pronounce numbers this way?

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EVERYBODY except the US and some other English speaking countries.

I would rather have one billion European pennies than one billion US dollars.

Ponder that, get back to me.....

You guys are dumb the OT is dumb

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is 55 thousand million a real number?

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Unless you're a moron, then no, it is not a real number. It's called BILLION.

The stupidity of people nowadays is simply sad.