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「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 13:35:52 JST 「セル」cell (سل) > 千
> 万
> lakh
> crore
> that weird way french people count
why doesn’t everyone use base-10 arabic numerals with groupings/separators every 10^3 as god intended-
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:blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 13:35:50 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: @cell it's mainly decorative, I don't see anyone propose the usage seriously -
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「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 13:35:51 JST 「セル」cell (سل) > From the 14th century on, Roman numerals began to be replaced by Arabic numerals; however, this process was gradual, and the use of Roman numerals persists in some applications to this day.
even the west is still tainted by this disease, in the year of our lord MMXXIV :raccoongun: -
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:blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 13:38:45 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: @cell it's time to retvrn -
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「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 13:38:46 JST 「セル」cell (سل) @allison i distinctly remember when movies and media in general stopped using roman numerals when indicating copyright year - incidentally it somewhat correlates with the era where people say media has gone down the gutter :thinking_cirno: -
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Mer's pizza Mer's world :blobcatgooglytrash: (mer@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 14:02:19 JST Mer's pizza Mer's world :blobcatgooglytrash: @cell eh long scale vs short scale basically doesnt matter until billion/milliard and that's basically the upper limit of meaningful numbers for humans. More than that and we switch to SI prefixes.
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