Why do people keep getting this wrong‽
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Matt Parker of Stand-up Maths explains why people keep making the same mistake with millions and billions, using a Bloomberg cash calculator example. He looks at the unit slip behind the repeated arithmetic error.
Why HN recommends it: HN links it to explain why people repeatedly get large-number arithmetic wrong in discussions of money and mental math.
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