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[Leafsnail]

Although I've just realised the amount in the email (3.5 sextillion USD) is more than there is virtual money too.

[Muz]

i don't like all the virtual money flying around...
a day, a ring of the chain will break, and then the whole thing will collapse, and we will have problems for several months, and banks going bankrupt.

Heh, "physical" money can just be as virtual. The only reason money has its worth is because people believe in it. They have to enforce it that a piece of printed paper is actually worth as much as 2 apples. Virtual money works the same way. A lot of money is in the form of bonds and loans. Bonds are just as solid as real dollars and cents, just in a different form. But yeah, once the USA gets nuked, all you guys will be dealing with is bottle caps.

Since when did it become hard to say 1.2 trillion? Please! Metric system!

But are you SERIOUSLY going to tell me that Obama pumped 600% of all the money in US circulation?

Also, "1,200 billion" is a valid statement and actually easier to read and manipulate in accounting when you're dealing in counts of billions. Just as saying 1.2x10^12 is easier in science.

[Ampersand]

There is another reasoning behind it, though.

This should explain it to some degree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

[Zironic]

Short sale in stock - betting for a company to fail or split stocks.

[Leafsnail]

Well then I would've said 1.2 billion.  But basically noone uses long scale anymore, so I didn't.

[SniHjen]

Well then I would've said 1.2 billion.  But basically noone uses long scale anymore, so I didn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_scale_countries

34 countries is "basically noone"?!

[Leafsnail]

Well, not so much of the English speaking world.  And on an international level all announcements come out in short scale (Britain has used long scale for official announcements for quite a while now).

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

Well then I would've said 1.2 billion.  But basically noone uses long scale anymore, so I didn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_scale_countries

34 countries is "basically noone"?!

Me still.

+ trillion = long scale-billion, but yeah.

[Yanlin]

I'm just Pro-SI.

I hate having useless zeros tacked on.

I don't get why people say stuff like "A thousand tons" and not "A kiloton" or "A gigagram"

[Osmosis Jones]

I don't get why people say stuff like ... "A gigagram"

I'd posit because it sounds like a very overweight strippergram...

[Yanlin]

At least I can be all smartsy when I say "You're so fat you probably weigh one yottagram!"

[Leafsnail]

At least I can be all smartsy when I say "You're so fat you probably weigh one yottagram!"

Unless they're smartsy enough to realise that would make them about one sixth of the weight of the earth, and that they'd probably count as a satellite rather than a resident.

[ein]

At least I can be all smartsy when I say "You're so fat you probably weigh one yottagram!"

No, no, no. You got the wording wrong.
It should say:
"Yo momma's so fat, she weighs a yottagram!"

[Yanlin]

At least I can be all smartsy when I say "You're so fat you probably weigh one yottagram!"

No, no, no. You got the wording wrong.
It should say:
"Yo momma's so fat, she weighs a yottagram!"

Oh yeah? Well Yo Mamma's so fat, she weighs a 2 yottagrams!

[Armok]

Well, YOUR mum's so fat, she weights 3->6->4 grams!