• palordrolap@fedia.io
    81·
    2 年前

    So it turns out that the word centibillonaire existed before this comic and refers to having 100 billion to 999 billion currency, despite the fact that the prefix centi- means a hundredth not a hundred times.

    By rights a centibillionaire should have between 10 million and 999 million currency, i.e. less than a billion.

    Frickin’ rich people ruining terminology. I’m still convinced that one of the reasons the US came up with the short scale system of numbering was so that a billion dollars was a somewhat achievable goal.

    “Thousand-millionaire” doesn’t have the same ring to it, after all, and “milliardaire” sounds like “millionaire” said by someone with a cold.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 年前

      Well, imagine livng in a Spanish coutry and thousand and million barely sounding the same XD, mil, millón. When shortining a million after a number I just give up and write 5kk because 5m might mean thousands for a lot of people. People know that 5kk is 5x1000x1000 and it just works. Sometimes I write 5e6 but managers tend to not understand that one.