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Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Until you start looking at old stuff and have you figure out if they were working with the "millions scheme" or "thousands scheme," and if "1 billion" is equal to 10^12^ or 10^9^

https://www.affixes.org/numberwords.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's why you have methods of writing like 10^x^.