-------- In message <[email protected]>, Mark Nottingham writes: >On 6 May 2020, at 6:29 am, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: >>=20 >> In class B people deal with huge numbers by downscaling: Millions, >> Trillions, GigaBytes and PetaBytes. Nobody really cares if the >> stimulus was 1.000.000.000.000 or 1.000.000.000.010 dollars, so >> sawing of the right hand side is a good way to make numbers = >manageable, >> at the cost of suffixing multiplier: $125M > >This makes me wonder whether we should add an example to stimulate = >readers' imagination in this direction; e.g., > >Example-ScaledInt: 4503;suffix=3DM
Would that work without an explanation ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
