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Nothing wrong with that.Oh boy, you won't like the lottery term MegaMillions.
As long as the prize is trillions of dollars.
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Musk getting pretty damn pathetic
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As long as the prize is trillions of dollars.
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Afraid not. The highest was KiloMillions. But no one in America would understand that.Nothing wrong with that.Oh boy, you won't like the lottery term MegaMillions.
As long as the prize is trillions of dollars.
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We won't be inching towards the metric system any time soon.
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A boat deck can be payed, a rope can be payed out, but employees are usually paid.It's not cheating if your employees do what they are payed for.
A word spelled wrong is a terrible thing.
Was the editor of Mien Kampf a grammar Nazi?A boat deck can be payed, a rope can be payed out, but employees are usually paid.It's not cheating if your employees do what they are payed for.
A word spelled wrong is a terrible thing.
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Was the editor of Mien Kampf a grammar Nazi?A boat deck can be payed, a rope can be payed out, but employees are usually paid.It's not cheating if your employees do what they are payed for.
A word spelled wrong is a terrible thing.
They are talking about a death sentence.
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Rudolf Hess certainly knew the difference between "mein" and "mien", which is not a word. "Miene" would be, but it means "facial expression".
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You can just say Gigabucks.
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Eleventy billion.
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In America, in the Gig economy, most would likely think it a Gigabuck was less than a Megabuck... much less, assuming they even knew what a megabuck was. Regarding a megabuck, some might posit... so uhh... a 40 point'er?
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Oh boy, you won't like the lottery term MegaMillions.
Let's not make it so complicated. A thousand thousand is a million, a megamillion is a trillion and a trillion trillion is a septillion.
So we may as well use the Septillion as our base.
The diameter of the Virgo supercluster is about one septillion meters.
The observable universe has about one septillion stars.
The sun's mass is about one septillion times the mass of a Space Shuttle.
Avogadro's Number is a bit less than one septillion nucleons per gram.
It takes a septillion UHF photons to equal 1 Joule in energy.
The Sun transmits energy to the Earth at about 1 septillion Joules per year.
The gravitational event LIGO-GW150914 released about one septillion times one septillion Joules.
Does this help?
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So he's turning into a supervillain? Great, haven't had one of those in a while.https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...e-thinks-billionaire-is-going-mad/ar-AA1x7bSR
Musk is obviously manic, so of course he's going to due all kinds of shit. In fact, as one who has experience with people suffering from mania, I'd say he's hyper manic, not that I wouldn't have sympathy for anyone suffering from a mental illness, but this one is a potential danger the world. Besides a lot of people who have mania, enjoy being in that state, refuse to take medications and do all kinds of risky shit that often impacts not just them but others who they influence.
An Elon Musk biographer has sounded the alarm that the world’s richest man may be losing his mind.
The Harvard Law-educated biographer Seth Abramson speculated Monday that Musk might be “going mad” in a setting for all to see—brought on by his growing stress, history of mental illness, and self-described heavy drug use.
“I legitimately believe Elon Musk may be going mad,” he posted to X. “I’m a Musk biographer who has been tracking his online behavior for the last two years—and given that he’s admitted to all of mental illness, heavy drug use, and crippling stress, it is now reasonable to fear he is deeply unwell.”
Abramson, 48, added that Musk’s mental state could have consequences worldwide.
The biographer’s “informed warning,” as he described it, comes after Musk went on a posting frenzy about British politics that has ruffled more than a few feathers across the pond. A tracking website says that Musk has averaged 62 posts daily for the last week.
It appears Musk’s relentless posting—and near-constant presence near Donald Trump—may also be annoying some in the MAGA world, including its leader.
It was reported shortly after the election that Musk had a “massive blow-up” with a Trump aide inside Mar-a-Lago regarding the leaking of Trump’s cabinet picks.
More recently, The New York Times journalist and “Trump whisperer” Maggie Haberman said on a podcast this weekend that “Trump does complain a bit to people about how Musk is around a lot.”
Elon Musk has reportedly been renting a cottage in Palm Beach in close proximity to the president-elect. / Brandon Bell/Getty Images
Trump hasn’t shared such a sentiment publicly. He has instead embraced Musk, 53, as his “First Buddy”—a title and relationship that conveniently came on the heels of the South Africa native pumping at least $250 million into his campaign.
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I think he is using it in the same way as century or centennial meaning 100 years.
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Exactly.
I've been a centimillionaire for quite some time. I doubt I'll ever be a centibillionaire but if I do become one, it will happen a lot sooner than me becoming a billionaire.
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And now a critique of Musk playing Paths of Exile 2, which is still in beta. My wife plays it and was shocked at how little Musk understood the game
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Hess, he was.Was the editor of Mien Kampf a grammar Nazi?A boat deck can be payed, a rope can be payed out, but employees are usually paid.It's not cheating if your employees do what they are payed for.
A word spelled wrong is a terrible thing.
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Then it would be centbillionaire, or centabilllionaire, or even centobillionaire; But as we already have the hecto- prefix for a hundred times, hectobillionaire would be more consistent.
Cent- means a hundred, though it's not used as a multiplicative unit prefix in any metrology with which I am familiar, and so appears only in linguistic prefexes such as your examples. Centi- means a hundredth. The cent- plays the usual role of indicating a hundred, but the -i- implies division rather than multiplication.
Even in the US, a cent isn't a hundred bucks, though presumably cent=hundred is the etymology of C-note being a hundred dollar bill, via the Roman use of C as the numeral for 100.
If a centimetre isn't a hundred metres, then a centibillionaire isn't a person with a hundred billion dollars - he is a person with ten million dollars. AKA a decamillionaire (not to be confused with a decimillionaire, who has a tenth of a million, ie a hundred thousand, dollars).
And apart from naming the C-note, the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health ... what have the Romans ever done for us?
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