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re: is 55 thousand million a real number?
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:27 am to zmanthetigerfan
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:27 am to zmanthetigerfan
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Context of the sentence was, "they are 55 thousand million in debt". Does any country or culture ANYWHERE use place values this way or pronounce numbers this way? The person claims certain economists and chemists say numbers this way. Is this why America is fricked?
If someone can correlate 55,000 million to 55 billion in their head it probably means they are good at math and aren't completely stupid and I have no problem with them existing.
Some people can't even do algebra.
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Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:27 am to TDsngumbo
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You're an idiot.
Never gets old
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:30 am to BigEdLSU
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Then again I'm the guy who spends 12.43 at the store and asks for 17.57 in gas at the register and get s a confused clerk. Wait, 17.57?!? Then they look at me like I'm a retard until they ring it up and it's $30
I do that as well.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:32 am to Lou Pai
Bruh, he spelled it right. This thread is full of trip on your own feet and stumble down an elevator shaft.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:32 am to zmanthetigerfan
In some English speaking countries, a billion is a million million (what we call a trillion).
So they have to say thousand million for what we call a billion.
So they have to say thousand million for what we call a billion.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:37 am to Lou Pai
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quote:
You're an idiot.
Never gets old
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:39 am to Bestbank Tiger
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In some English speaking countries, a billion is a million million (what we call a trillion).
So they have to say thousand million for what we call a billion.
That's true.
It's all about how they structure their number system in their language.
For instance, the french say dix sept for 17, which literally means 10 7. (10+7).
And they say soixante dix for 70, which literally means 60 10 (60 + 10).
Then it gets really weird for 80 and 90, where they say quatre vignt, which means 4 20 (4x20) and quatre vignt dix for 90 or 4 20 10 (4x20+10).
UNFORTUNATELY I was in French class in highschool in 1998 and 1999...
Those are written/spoken as such
dix neuf cent quatre vignt dix huit - 1998
dix neuf cent quatre vignt dix nuef - 1999
And 2000?
Deux mille
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:44 am to CajunAlum Tiger Fan
Someone gets it
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:45 am to zmanthetigerfan
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is 55 thousand million a real number?
Yes
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:56 am to Pectus
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For instance, the french say dix sept for 17, which literally means 10 7. (10+7).
So Chad Johnson picked the wrong language?
Posted on 11/20/15 at 7:57 am to zmanthetigerfan
Yes, if you're a fourth grader. That's like saying "a thousand grand"
Posted on 11/20/15 at 8:04 am to zmanthetigerfan
You'll often see that sort of nomenclature in graphs and charts that show values in millions and cover a wide range, e.g., 55 million, 900 million, 2100 million, etc.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 8:28 am to Pectus
Try to buy a 40 with your fancy European pennies.
I'll take the Murkin money. It has God's name on it.
I'll take the Murkin money. It has God's name on it.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 8:32 am to Layabout
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nomenclature
Watch out everybody, we gotta super smart college boy over here throwing around Russian vocabulary words!!!
Take it down a notch professor, we're all very impressed.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 8:35 am to LucasP
He's a regular goddam godless commie Akademik.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 8:39 am to PocketAces
quote:There is so much math fail in this thread. 55,000 trillion pennies, would be 550 trillion dollars, not 55 billion dollars.
It's the same as 55 thousand trillion pennies.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 8:41 am to BiggerBear
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55,000 trillion pennies, would be 550 trillion dollars, not 55 billion dollars.
In theory, maybe. But there's no way that would work in practice.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 8:44 am to LucasP
Must be the University of Texas AD talking about his offer to Saban.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 8:55 am to LucasP
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In theory, maybe. But there's no way that would work in practice.
I practiced it once: way too heavy to carry around and no one wants pennies anymore anyway.
Posted on 11/20/15 at 9:06 am to BiggerBear
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I practiced it once: way too heavy to carry around and no one wants pennies anymore anyway.
Yes. 22 million cubic meters of pennies is heavy. Would not recommend.
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