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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your maths is a little off there: 100m is 5%

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IT'S JUST A FEW DECIMAL PLACES GIVE ME A BREAK 😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What’s a few decimal places among friends, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

while you're correct based on instagram's numbers, the other commenter would be correct if it was a British billion which is a million millions. just a fun fact 🦄

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's true, although the long scale billion hasn't been a thing even in Britain for decades.

If it's fun facts you like, try this: English is the clear odd one out, most other languages use milliard for 10^9 and billion for 10^12.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

milliard - love it ty for that. Reminds me of: French: L'ananas Italian: L'ananas Icelandic: Ananas Portuguese: O ananás Swedish: Ananas German: Die Ananas

English: Pineapple