850.000 billion is 850 trillion uno.

I was rather confused by your used of '.'  and ',' in this post. By $850.000 billion, do you mean $850 thousand billion (or trillion), as Hammerstar's post would suggest or $850 billion, as my own rough calculations of your GDP would agree with?

$850.000, as in "eight hundred and fifty (point oh...)". The decimals (which are marked by the ".") are not really necessary in the first figure. I've studied too much math not to use the same amount of decimals in both figures ($874.471 billion), and too much to mess things up[emoji14]

Thanks for the clarity. The issue for me came from the fact that some people (usually whole nations, in fact) use '.' and ',' the other way around (so 1.000 is 'a thousand' and 1,5 is 'one point five'). I did consider that you were writing everything to three decimal points, but I just couldn't be sure!

Of course it took me long enough just to be sure what the right definition of a billion is these days. It user to mean 'a million million' in the UK and a trillion meant 'a million million million', which makes more sense (as in one lot of six zeros, two lots of six zeroes, etc.) and is also more linguistically efficient (i.e. you get to much higher numbers with fewer new terms introduced), but the American meaning is the one which has found global acceptance so we've changed to it as well. No point fighting that battle when it's easier just to go with the majority.

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Where I'm from, we use '.' and ',' the other way around, so I have to be extra careful

The use of "billion" is also a trap for us. In Swedish we have "miljon" (10^6), then "miljard" (10^9), and then "biljon" (10^12 = a million million, as in BrE).

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Thanks (I thought you were Swedish, but didn't know. I find myself living in guessland here, lol).

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Yahweo usenneo ir varleo, ihraneo jurlaweo hraseu seu, ir jiweveo arladi.

Salma 145:8

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*Lights the lighter* @Qwert, it must be done, I don't know if you concur.

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This thread brings back memories. I liked participating in TSPRP.

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This is a surprising grave dig.

*Lights the lighter* @Qwert, it must be done, I don't know if you concur.

Burn down the office of the logic police?

This thread brings back memories. I liked participating in TSPRP.

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Sedunn      Quick facts - Population: 26,016,343 - GDP: $1.53 trillion - Military: 354,000‬ personnel, 3.8% of GDP - King: Vimmru II - Foundation: Late Iron Age - Member of the WF and CPSC

Transsuneria Quick facts - Population: 1,003,504 - GDP: $20.637 billion - Military: 5,500‬ personnel, 0.75% of GDP - President: Emil Palmann - Foundation: 1905 - Member of the WF

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*Watches the smouldering offices and the documents that fly along with the smoke*

I believe it's time to create a new force that oversees the logic in the region? One that's not too.....authoritarian :p

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