Memes

45869 readers

980 users here now

Rules:

Be civil and nice.
Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

989

the debt (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

124 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] gravitas_deficiency 12 points 6 months ago

Yes, and it is the correct number of zeros to use. I find it helps to put things into scope. “Trillion” is an abstract magnitude to most people. Writing it out numerically makes it clear how absolutely enormous the number is.

permalink
fedilink
source
parent