[whimsicalism]

what? the scientific community absolutely also uses billion and trillion by short scale

it’s all over papers and nobody is ever using the long scale that i’ve seen

[ivan_gammel]

Are those papers in English? Long scale may be translated to short scale if the paper is translated from the original language where long scale is common.

[whimsicalism]

yes, i'm talking about the scientific community - papers are almost exclusively published in english or with an english version. long scale translated to short scale would be a mistranslation, imo