8 Dec
2011
8 Dec
'11
10:21 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 09:03:26PM +0000, Christopher Kormanyos wrote:
billion trillion
Those are a horrible idea to attempt to define, as their meaning is ambigious - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
How about simply _1 _10 _100 ... then? *if* it's deemed desirable to have such constants in the first place. I.e., in what instances are the corresponding literals insufficient?
We decided not to add constants that were simple integers, if there's a good use case we could certainly add them though. John.