Talk:2946: 1.2 Kilofives - Revision history

2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB at 16:47, 14 February 2026

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2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB: not 19

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not 19

2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB: zmol

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zmol

2001:4C4E:1C0F:DE00:38FF:FBA5:D00A:D30B at 08:47, 16 November 2025

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Gam3: Add to challenge entries.

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Add to challenge entries.

172.71.242.177 at 19:36, 18 June 2024

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172.70.174.112 at 18:01, 18 June 2024

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172.70.39.21 at 17:50, 18 June 2024

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162.158.167.94: relation to quatre-vingt sept

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relation to quatre-vingt sept

172.69.71.170: $5

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 .2 × 10³ × 5 = 6000
 "five" gets interpreted as Euler's number × imaginary unit × unknown "f" × unknown "v". On my old laptop, I must have some other configuration or maybe an old version, because there it gets interpreted as 0×i×e=0, so you can enter "five plus five" and get 0. Maybe another challenge would be to get arbitrary misleading results out from equations like this. [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 05:59, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
+:However, five + five is congruent to 0 (mod 10). [[Special:Contributions/2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB|2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB]] 16:47, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
 Perhaps East Hills NY, but their "Welcome" boards don't mention population, https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@40.7805262,-73.632634,3a,15y,25.75h,92.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf5guvv2tETuyn0f_lSFh7A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&coh=205409&entry=ttu so this might just be a random name that R. came up with[[User:Zeimusu|Zeimusu]] ([[User talk:Zeimusu|talk]]) 07:40, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

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−	10 zmol? Or (if we are more precise) 9.963 zmol? (1 mol = 602,214,076,000,000,000,000, dividing that by 10<sup>19</sup> is 6,022.14076, rounds to 6000) – [[Special:Contributions/2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB\|2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB]] 16:43, 14 February 2026 (UTC)	+	10 zmol? Or (if we are more precise) 9.963 zmol? (1 mol = 602,214,076,000,000,000,000, dividing that by 10<sup>20</sup> is 6,022.14076, rounds to 6000) – [[Special:Contributions/2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB\|2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB]] 16:43, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

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		+	10 zmol? Or (if we are more precise) 9.963 zmol? (1 mol = 602,214,076,000,000,000,000, dividing that by 10<sup>19</sup> is 6,022.14076, rounds to 6000) – [[Special:Contributions/2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB\|2001:4C4E:1C02:4D00:4474:C0DE:8ABD:5EBB]] 16:43, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

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 ::::Well, these days "G for Grand" can get mixed up a lot with "G for Giga", also. But you can have "a grand", like "a mill(ion)" (I'm not I've ever run in circles where "a bill" is used like that...), at least in contexts similar to refering to a "pony", bullseye", "ton" or "monkey" (25, 50, 100, 500).
 ::::I find the "large value suffixes" used in Idle Games to be interesting. Generally at every 1000 (and going with short-scales terms, which I personally consider a waste, as you end using "N-illion" term in short-scale much quicker than in long-scale), there's generally a couple of approaches at 1000x ("k", which is often "K" because it's uppercased, or "t"), 10<sup>6</sup> almost always "M"(illion), then "B"/"Bi", then "T"/"Tr", from then it's maybe "Qa"->"Qi" or "Q"<->"q" (or maybe "q"->"Q") for quad-/quint-illions, a choice of some variation of "Sx" or "Hx" for the '6-illion', then "Sp"/"Hp" (or it was "S"/"H" upper and "s"/"h" lower) to continue the chosen Latin or Greek for 7. "Oc"/"O" follows, often "No"/"N" for 9-illions, "D(e|c)"/"D". After that, there's a distinct divergence. At some point, though, it seems that everyone reverts to something like "Aa"->"Ab"->"Ac". Occasionally, you can even take the two characters "Xy" and translate them into somethig like "10X+y"-illions, though I think a variation upon "26X+y(+c)" (accounting for the A!=0 issues, of course), though it depends on which options were used to display the sub-Decillions... Single-character suffix for them allows them to not accidentally re-use any double-character, and (if you get high enough values, you get led on into "Xyz" suffix-territory). Though the biggest problem with ''this'' is that 321 Octiliion, "321O", can look like the far lowe value of "3,210". [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.177|172.71.242.177]] 19:36, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
+:::::Some even extend (not the "simply letter-series" way) to way above decillions, even above centillions (but even using 3+-letter notation). About the "X.YYO" like notation: yes, it can also be confused with a trailing zero added for precision. [[Special:Contributions/2001:4C4E:1C0F:DE00:38FF:FBA5:D00A:D30B|2001:4C4E:1C0F:DE00:38FF:FBA5:D00A:D30B]] 08:47, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
 Y2K should be Y2k - the SI prefix for 1,000 is k to distinguish it from the unit abbreviation K, for Kelvin. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.210.22|172.68.210.22]] 23:18, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 :That would be a very cold year.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 09:36, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

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 :A decapentagross minus a semiennea. [[User:Xkcd machine guy|Xkcd machine guy]] ([[User talk:Xkcd machine guy|talk]]) 10:10, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 :A gross score and half a dozen elevenses[[User:Tier666|Tier666]] ([[User talk:Tier666|talk]]) 12:57, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 Interestingly, four score and seven is exactly how you say 87 in French (quatre-vingt sept) and Basque (laurogeita zazpi). Both count on base 20. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.138|172.70.90.138]] 05:16, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

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 :English does use mega as a prefix, albeit not frequently. The most common example in common usage is possibly megaton (of TNT) for nuclear weapons, but it's also frequently used in slightly more technical discussions; megahertz, megawatts, megabytes and megapixels are the usages that most immediately come to mind. {{unsigned|TimO|11:27, 17 June 2024}}
 ::I understood that to mean that "mega" can be used in the narrative place of "million(s)", or equivalent. Like 2,000 of your finest Pounds Sterling (or US Dollars) could be described as "two grand"(/"two ''G''s"), bit in Czech cases it (sounds like it might be) "two mega". Maybe also used in something like "a mega reasons not to go visit the in-laws...", as the kind of phraseology it lets be used. Although (just checking), it looks like "thousand" in Czech is (normally) "tisíc"... so it isn't really saving much talking ("thou-sand" vs "grand"/"''Gee'' has an abbreviating quality, as well as being a slang/cant replacement - albeit meaning these days the obfuscation is fairly widely known and vastly deprecated for that purpose). Perhaps a Czech (or an older Slovak, if not someone from that additional historic minority, the 'O's!) could clarify. I presume 176.68.213.148 is one, or at least knows enough to resolve all confusion/talk to their actual Czechian friends about it! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.49.94|162.158.49.94]] 11:57, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
-:::It's pretty common in English to shorten million and (short) billion to M and B.  Like, the company made $5M last year, or the world's population is 7.9B people.  Thousand gets shortened to K, I don't think I've ever seen G for grand used in quite the same way.  Like, I'd say "I won 2 gees at the racetrack," but I wouldn't say "I have a bag with 2G marbles in it."
+:::It's pretty common in English to shorten million and (short) billion to M and B.  Like, the company made $5M last year, or the world's population is 7.9B people.  Thousand gets shortened to K, I don't think I've ever seen G for grand used in quite the same way.  Like, I'd say "I won 2 gees at the racetrack," but I wouldn't say "I have a bag with 2G marbles in it." {{unsigned ip|172.70.39.21|17:50, 18 June 2024}}
 Y2K should be Y2k - the SI prefix for 1,000 is k to distinguish it from the unit abbreviation K, for Kelvin. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.210.22|172.68.210.22]] 23:18, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 :That would be a very cold year.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 09:36, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
 ::Just a little chilly. [[User:Psychoticpotato|P?sych??otic?pot??at???o ]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 14:16, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
-:The K in Y2K is not an SI prefix, so I'm not sure why it would follow SI prefix rules.  FWIW, the UK websites of the BBC and The Times both render it with capital K, as do the websites of the NY Times and the Washington Post.  The AP Style Book and the Chicago Manual of Style both have examples with Y2K in them with capital K, although they don't specifically opine on the format of Y2K itself.
+:The K in Y2K is not an SI prefix, so I'm not sure why it would follow SI prefix rules.  FWIW, the UK websites of the BBC and The Times both render it with capital K, as do the websites of the NY Times and the Washington Post.  The AP Style Book and the Chicago Manual of Style both have examples with Y2K in them with capital K, although they don't specifically opine on the format of Y2K itself. {{unsigned ip|172.70.174.112|18:01, 18 June 2024}}
 I'd have said East Hills is home to a hundred shocks. (Or one hectoshock?) 😉 [[User:PaulEberhardt|PaulEberhardt]] ([[User talk:PaulEberhardt|talk]]) 14:35, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 Coincidence that Abraham Lincoln is on the five-dollar bill? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.71.170|172.69.71.170]] 15:26, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

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	Interestingly, four score and seven is exactly how you say 87 in French (quatre-vingt sept) and Basque (laurogeita zazpi). Both count on base 20. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.138\|172.70.90.138]] 05:16, 15 June 2024 (UTC)		Interestingly, four score and seven is exactly how you say 87 in French (quatre-vingt sept) and Basque (laurogeita zazpi). Both count on base 20. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.138\|172.70.90.138]] 05:16, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
		+	: That's not a coincidence. French and English are closely related linguistically and culturally. It would be nice to work this info into the explanation. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.167.94\|162.158.167.94]] 15:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

	Fun fact: libqalculate and the "Qalculate"/"qalc" programs can just deal with the title text:		Fun fact: libqalculate and the "Qalculate"/"qalc" programs can just deal with the title text:

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	I'd have said East Hills is home to a hundred shocks. (Or one hectoshock?) 😉 [[User:PaulEberhardt\|PaulEberhardt]] ([[User talk:PaulEberhardt\|talk]]) 14:35, 16 June 2024 (UTC)		I'd have said East Hills is home to a hundred shocks. (Or one hectoshock?) 😉 [[User:PaulEberhardt\|PaulEberhardt]] ([[User talk:PaulEberhardt\|talk]]) 14:35, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
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