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New twist: do it in India.

Engineering notation for the win!

Cursed number.

Looks like someone didn't length check their read! (Rust would never)

Nice! 😎

This is exactly what reading a huge number feels like

It was hexadecimal all along!

An error on this magnitude…

I was looking for the reference to an IPV6 address.

My standards for data might be low, but even I don't deal with CVS data. 😂

Balatro

Reading numbers was hard, until I played balatro, it’s secretly training you to read big numbers

That's about 1/3 to 1/4 of a bathtub. Now 1 billion is 1000 times more, so 250 to 300 bathtubs (or to stay more precise, about 244 cubic yards.) In comparison Olympic swimming pools are min of 2500 cubic meters. So over 10 billion perler beads to fill one.

This perfectly encapsulates my professional life

day 39 of factoring xkcd 3102 = 2*3*11*47

oh no. it's hexadecimal.

Who the fuck doesnt see a second comma then immediately switches to start reading from right to left starting at the decimal? How would you know what -illion to start at?!

Someone is using the Alt text reader and got its ears ripped 🫠

Nubby’s Number Factory:

who reads big numbers left to right? I start at the decimal.

That would be magnitutes better if it had exponential notation in the middle and it turned out to be hex at the end.

"Oh I guess this will be the new high score in Nubby's Number Factory..."

Whoa.

Look, software gore!

at one point it should be "why tf aren't they using scientific notation"

Scientific notation is your friend.

12 Pretty big if you're a 2.

Balatro scores

whoops, miscalc'd, i just found 3^^^3 in a calculator, not 3^^^^3 sorry, my bad

Cue the old punchline, "ok, but how much is a brazillion?"

Punctuation garnishes, if you will