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David Gretzschel's avatar

«decamillionaire»

Tens of millions makes sense. My reference says, it's with a k, but who kares.

«centimillionaire ten years older than him,»

Did you really mean someone who had tens of thousands in his bank account?

Or did you mean perhaps hectomillionaire? (someone with hundreds of millions)

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In as much as there's a pattern, the SI system tends to make the small prefixes Latin and the big prefixes Greek, out of the ancient snobbery probably. Democracy>Populism and all that.

Don't worry about learning them too hard, I'll establish an alternative convention soon enough.

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The Stern Golum's avatar

I cross posted and some of my subs are pissing themselves laughing.

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