Re: Please avoid using ambiguous language
According to nm.d.o, we have 1.022 kilomembers (kDd).
The udd is tracking roughly 2.28 megapackages (Mdeb) built from 218
kilosources (kDsc).
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:43 AM Elena ``of Valhalla''
<valhalla@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On debian-private somebody wrote (leaked with permission):
> > some billion(*)
> > (*) German: Milliarden
>
> Can we please decide as a project to avoid using ambiguous English words
> like billion or trillion and move to proper SI prefixes or exponential
> notation, as appropriate?
>
> We would also have to decide how to decide this, of course, and then how
> to enforce the decision, whatever that is.
>
> I believe this would be enough material for at least a baker's dozen new
> threads on the appropriate mailing lists, plus the spurious ones on
> inappopriate ones. :D
>
> --
> Elena ``of Valhalla''
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