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.

Not really. Most people aren’t familiar with scientific or engineering notation. Writing £1,000,000, one million pounds or £1Million is a lot clearer than writing £1×10^6.

My cars odometer says 91,584, not 91.584×10^3

I just checked it out, very boring /s

I judge people for being gate keepers of music, I used to be one and no one likes it. People have different tastes and it’s horses for courses.

They’ve probably just never been in the correct head space to listen to it because they’ve been conditioned to listen to mind numbing pop chart shite.

What’s your favourite band?

I keep hearing about all the tankies here, but I’ve never actually encountered one.

I liked it. I’m not going to pretend it was the best TV media ever or anything like that, it was just a bit of harmless fun.

You’d think all the haters were forced to watch it against their will. We live in an age where you can watch anything you want whenever you want. I think some people just like a good moan.

I don’t think that liking the ideals of communism means that you want to bury all Putin related news or even that you support Putin at all. Russia hasn’t been communist for a very long time.

Why is this getting downvoted?

Ok, if you can find an unbiased source that says it costs the UK taxpayer more than 77p per person per year, I’ll read the rest of your comment.

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/how-much-does-the-royal-family-cost-a-breakdown-of-86-3m-in-key-figures

The royal family costs the UK tax payer 77p per year, most people aren’t outraged by that.

It can be argued that they attract a considerable amount of tourism, people that travel to the UK to see the Tower of London, the King’s guards, Buckingham palace and all the rest of it. There is also the “soft power”, people around the world are for some reason obsessed with the UK’s royal family and it does help with influence whether you’d argue that is for better or worse.

I understand that the obscene wealth they hold during a cost of living crisis is an image problem to say the least and I don’t defend that. Such obscene wealth is awful no matter who you are and according to the times rich list, there are at least 257 residents in the UK that are more wealthy than the Royals, some of them considerably so.

For the record, I’m not for or against the UK monarchy, I’m somewhere in-between and see validity in both sides of the argument.

I think everyone knows it’s ridiculous.

For some the monarchy is a living museum, they don’t have to like it, they just find it interesting.

I mean yh, if you paid me £100,000 a year, I’d do it.

But living in the real world where you’d be earning minimum wage for work a machine can do hundreds of times faster and more consistently? You need to be realistic, why would you want to do menial labour that isn’t even required.

He’s absolutely hilarious. If you take Karl Pilkington seriously, it’s you that’s the problem.

Btw, Borat is a character.

This is pretty similar to when the disgruntled cotton spinners, put out of work at the very beginning of the industrial revolution used to break in to the factories to smash up the machinery.

You may not like it, it may cause short term problems, but AI is here to stay and it’s only going to get better.

Who wants to work all-day spinning cotton now?

I just wanted to say that you shouldn’t be getting downvoted. Your question is well written and appears to be made in good faith.

There are some good and interesting replies here and it shows that your question was worth asking. Please don’t be deterred from asking further questions in the future.

It’s an honest question asked in good faith and shame on you for trying to shut down OP. There are some very good, interesting and well written replies here that show it was a question worth asking.

In other news, “no one wants to work anymore”.

Without context, this post is ironic.

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