Crazy On Tap - 1,000 Trillion

1,000 Trillion

I was recently reading this article:

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=V4S5MC31YOJTCQSNDLPCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=192700465

And wondered why they use the term 1,000 trillion instead of 1 quadrillion?

Even this site uses the same term: http://www.petaflop.info/

What's up with that?

bpd
September 14th, 2006 4:46pm

http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm

Ward
September 14th, 2006 4:50pm

Us and scientific community? WTF?

Are scientists nationless? All around the world 1 billion is 1 million millions.

Masiosare
September 14th, 2006 7:15pm

Not here. Here a million million is a trillion.

Aaron F Stanton
September 14th, 2006 7:33pm

Maybe I should have capitalize "U.S."

That's precisely what the article says, the only place in the world where 1 million million is a trillion is the US and (added by the author) the "scientific community".

Masiosare
September 14th, 2006 7:47pm

Oh...well, clearly the US isn't part of the scientific community, which is why the article had to explicitly state it.

Aaron F Stanton
September 14th, 2006 7:51pm

No, the US is a country. the scientific community is worldwide.

Moron.

Masiosare
September 14th, 2006 8:30pm

You missed my point. Consider the whole ID debate in the US. There's no way this country can be considered competent in science.

Moron.

Aaron F Stanton
September 14th, 2006 8:42pm

Ward, based on the link you provided, shouldn't it have been "1000 billion" instead of "1000 trillion" - but only outside the U.S..

I think I've even more confused.

bpd
September 15th, 2006 9:24am

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