[–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

So we get to hundred, then thousand up to hundred thousand, why would we use a thousand thousand for a million, or ten hundred thousand, or a hundred thousand thousand? A new word at each separator just makes easy parsing.

One hundred seventy three thousand million four hundred sixty two thousand four hundred twenty just sounds so much worse and harder to parser when hearing it.

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  • [+] -7 points 9 months ago*

    I'm sorry, but it's a teenager. He's at the point where it's his body, his choice. I say let him die or digest them. Natural selection trying it's best and being thwarted for extreame cases is bad.

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