05:00
<ljharb>
what is the non-US meaning of "billion"? (i know that "bracket" can, despite all odds, refer to any of [ { < (
05:01
<Andreu Botella>
a million millions
05:01
<Andreu Botella>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
05:11
<kriskowal>
Spare a moment to revel in how Americans spell Dr. with a dot even though it’s not an abbreviation and Britains spelling it Dr even though it’s a contraction. Somewhere, it’s spelled D’r but I don’t know where.
05:13
<kriskowal>
Don’t talk to me about d4r.
06:52
<Michael Ficarra>
umm how is it not an abbreviation?
07:06
<Ashley Claymore>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
"Most English-language countries and regions use the short scale with 10^9 being billion."
15:08
<ptomato>
I think you mean d8r
16:31
<ljharb>
octo is 4 letters tho
18:24
<TabAtkins>
benefit of octopode is that it has 8 letters
18:25
<TabAtkins>
Sorry, this is delegates, I'll move to TDZ