@lousyd to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoTIL there are approximately 13 sextillion transistors in existencewww.waferworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square43arrow-up1357arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1348arrow-down1external-linkTIL there are approximately 13 sextillion transistors in existencewww.waferworld.com@lousyd to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square43file-text
minus-square@hsdkfr734r@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish20•edit-23 months agoSextillion: 10³⁶ Edit: look at sneezycats comment. 10²¹ it is.
minus-square@hsdkfr734r@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-23 months agoOh. Thanks for the hint. Wikipedia says: two different naming systems for integers powers of ten but they use the same name. TIL. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextillion_(disambiguation)
minus-squareKSP AtlaslinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoYeah it can be confusing, esp when you speak two languages that use the opposite scale
Sextillion: 10³⁶
Edit: look at sneezycats comment. 10²¹ it is.
It’s actually 1021, short scale sextillions.
Oh. Thanks for the hint.
Wikipedia says: two different naming systems for integers powers of ten but they use the same name. TIL.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextillion_(disambiguation)
Yeah it can be confusing, esp when you speak two languages that use the opposite scale