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		ZYinMD on March 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown OK, so what you mean is, million and mega happen to share the initial, and trillion and tera happen to share too, but billion and giga happen to not share an initial.

8note on March 13, 2022 | [–]

Also, the metric prefixes are used cross language, and the ms, bs, and ts aren't the same cross language

tester89 on March 13, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, might’ve been a coincidence

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