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by scotty79 341 days ago
Pretty much all of continental Europe is on long scale. In computing it's masked by SI prefixes. Nobody talks about billion bytes whatever it means.

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solstice 341 days ago
Would be cool to use "ten giga-euros" to express "10 billion €". A bit like giga-gram in ... astronomy?
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scotty79 340 days ago
I'd prefer if US tech went with giga parameters instead of billion.
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