£1MM a day consultants

[WTFH]

To be fair, billions and trillions by the Yank definition are far more commonly encountered orders of magnitude than 10^12 and 10^18.

So that's one innovation that I think makes sense.

I thought it went back to Latin - you had 4 levels
I
X
C
M
Then after that it repeated, but you didn't go up a level until you had used all the lower ones.
The American way only uses 3 levels when you get beyond one thousand.

[Whorty]

Deloitte's were charging a reduced rate. They normally stiff the taxpayer for way more than that.

Back in mid 2000's when I worked for Deloitte they charged me out for much more than that.

[NowPermOutsideUK]

The 1100 number is an average rate and includes people I imagine who are taking tests in the car park - Not senior PM / engineer types

In either case that 1100 a day on avergae is serious money no matter how you look at it

[NigelJK]

Linguistically you only use a new term when required, so:
100x10 is thousand, with 999 being the largest number available in the Hundreds
1000x1000 is Million, with 999,999 being the largest number available in Thousands
1,000,000,000,000 is a Billion, with 999,999,999,999 being largest number available in the Millions.

This is also how the SI units are named, no need for a new name at a thousand million.

[NotAllThere]

This is also how the SI units are named, no need for a new name at a thousand million.

Nope.

Standard prefixes for the metric units of measure (multiples)

deca, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta
10^0, 10^1,10^2,10^3,10^6,10^9,10^12,10^15,10^18,10^21,10²⁴

[ladymuck]

Nope.

Standard prefixes for the metric units of measure (multiples)
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Factor[TD]10⁰[/TD]
[TD]10¹[/TD]
[TD]10²[/TD]
[TD]10³[/TD]
[TD]10⁶[/TD]
[TD]10⁹[/TD]
[TD]10¹²[/TD]
[TD]10¹⁵[/TD]
[TD]10¹⁸[/TD]
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Sort your HTML / BBCode out!

[jamesbrown]

https://ucum.org/ucum.html

[vetran]

https://ucum.org/ucum.html

sounds like a mouthful!

[Lance]

As reported here in authoritative newspaper

rates must be going up! of October it employed 1,230 consultants. Test and trace has average daily contractor rates of £1,100

note 1100 a day is average !

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...on-consultants

you are assuming that the individual worker is getting that money. That is a very poor assumption and almost certainly wrong.

Are you aware of consultancy firms like Accenture, Cap Gemini, Deloitte's, etc? If you are then you know why your assumption is dumb.

[Lance]

It was a sad day in 1974 when Harold Wilson confirmed that the UK would use the short scale definition of a billion due to increasing use and influence by the USA and its inability to handle big numbers.

I disagree. I come from an engineering background. Everything is done by powers to the multiple of 3.

Something x 10^3 is a thousand somethings
x 10^6 is a million things
x 10^9 a billion
x 10^12 a trillion

makes far more sense and demonstrates that despite the US sticking to 'imperial' measures that aren't even imperial, they do have some useful ideas.