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pixl97last Thursday at 9:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

1.3076744e+12 -1 is a lot of categories to click.


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floxylast Thursday at 11:01 PM

1,307,674,368,000

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permo-wyesterday at 11:24 AM

e+ is such an unintuitive decimal representation system. going in blindly, it's completely non-obvious what "e" stands for, surely "d" would make far more sense. also, the namespace for e is plenty filled up as is, and, most of all, +12 implies 12 additional digits, not digits after the point

Google's choice to use it for calculation results despite having essentially no restriction on text space always annoyed me. I think this is the first time I've seen a human using it

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