Michael V said:
SCIENCE said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Must be a rather messy word for the total bacteria in the universe.
anyway we know that Tau.Neutrino you are easygoing enough to not have taken it personally and even if it seemed targeted the skin is tough enough to glance it off
however we apologise for the seeming slur as it was a quote-reply when our actual target was the wider practice of naming larger numbers, which tends to lend little technical value but serves to emphasise or exaggerate size
(similarly as recently brought up, unit prefixes, which we suppose have the same etymologic roots)
sooner or later we’re going to poison yousall with proper logarithm prefixes so it’s going to become shit like “the half life of carbon-14 is 0.18 d12s” and similarly “GTA6 will require 212 b30bytes of storage”, pending further reviews / revisions)
Earthquake magnitudes.
In any case, I doubt log scales will catch on, because thinking in log scales is generally non-intuitive.
uh… we mean the prefixes are a logarithmic scale…
but our point is that “1e+50 J” or “1050 joules” is still much easier to understand than “100 000 000 000 000 000 000 quettajoules”
there’s a point at which comparing it to sydharbs or hiroshimabombs is no more foolish than these ridics