• 6 Posts
  • 390 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 1st, 2023

help-circle








  • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.worldTrump wins.
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    8
    ·
    11 days ago

    You’re getting down votes because the truth hurts. People in the echo chamber don’t want to hear anything except “Trump bad”.

    To sum up your comment succinctly it can simply be said that the democratic party failed to relate with and engage the electorate, something that Trump did successfully.









  • It’s not about the size of the number, it’s about presenting information in a way that the average reader can understand. The best way to do that is to present it in the way that they’re accustomed to and I don’t think I’ve ever seen scientific notation used to refer to a sum of money.

    It’s great that you and I understand scientific notation, but it’s worthlesss when you’re trying to get the average person to understand what you’re writing if they don’t know it themselves.

    To make myself clear, I’m not saying that scientific notation isn’t useful, I’m just saying that most people don’t understand it.

    For extra credit, 74,500,000,000,000,000 aka seventy four quintillion, five hundred quadrillion.