Did we ever find out why "billions" is marked with a "G" in game????

[planetofthehumans2]

I tried looking in the forums but people just say billions, but in the game billions is represented by the letter "G" and not "B" ???? In german, the name for billions starts with an M so....who did this and did they not know the metric system???

There is actually a need for "G" if people ever reach a googleplex of coins/supply/medals. I'm not sure if anyone has reached the trillions yet, maybe they made that an "I" just to mess with people.

 

[CrashBoom]

billions are different on the world
for some 1 billion = 1000 million
and elsewhere (for example germany) 1 billion = 1000000 million

 

[xivarmy]

they use metric prefixes which apart from the US and some 3rd world countries is pretty ubiquitous (and even in the US metric prefixes are used for computer stuff).

K = kilo = thousand
M = mega = million is coincidental.
G = giga = US billion
T = tera = US trillion
P = peta = US quadrillion if we should get there

 

[planetofthehumans2]

So I'm supposed to say that SAT costs me 700 megasupplies?

 

[xivarmy]

So I'm supposed to say that SAT costs me 700 megasupplies?

It's more fun that way imo

And your high level titan buildings are going to cost you gigacoins!

 

[planetofthehumans2]

It's more fun that way imo

And your high level titan buildings are going to cost you gigacoins!

Thats why I initially asked, my supplies went under the gigasupplies and into the megasupplies.

 

[BeeVee]

they use metric prefixes which apart from the US and some 3rd world countries is pretty ubiquitous (and even in the US metric prefixes are used for computer stuff).

K = kilo = thousand
M = mega = million is coincidental.
G = giga = US billion
T = tera = US trillion
P = peta = US quadrillion if we should get there

But then again, in Saint Patrick event they used Q as prefix.

 

[xivarmy]

But then again, in Saint Patrick event they used Q as prefix.

Yea, that one was weird imo. Originally they had it as aa - not sure why they went Q instead of P. I guess we'll have to get 1000T coins to find out if they did the same thing with normal quantities.