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UK Rail and Trains

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Humbly disagree; I'm on a mini-crusade to encourage people to always write out huge numbers in full, because of the tendency of human minds to not fully process just how huge a number a billion is.

For example, when discussing working conditions at Amazon, one should write out Jeff Bezos' net worth as $215,000,000,000 so we can see the zeroes. He could lose $5,000,000,000 and still have $210,000,000,000 left.