Talk:Orders of magnitude (currency)

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What? -- user:Zanimum

[edit] True or false??

True or false: this article belongs at Orders of magnitude (U.S. currency). 66.245.125.53 01:41, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

True Michael Betts 14:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

?? MILIARD AND BILLION SEEM TO BE TOTALLY CONFUSED HERE!!

[edit] Name article

I intend to rename the article from Orders of magnitude (U.S. money) to Orders of magnitude (money) because there is currently only one Orders of magnitude article on money, no disambiguation is needed. It is about money in general, the dollar is just the unit in which amounts are expressed. If the article is too US-centric, add euro values etc., and more items related to other countries.--Patrick 11:21, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

As of today, this article is clearly about Orders of magnitude of US money / US dollars and it describes the values of objects bought in the US. This article is not about money in general, and therefore has little relevance outside the US readership. While it continues to describes US money only, then the article name should stay as it is. If you intend to rename it to Orders of magnitude (money), then I would expect to see the addition of euro values and/or other monetary values at the same time that it is so renamed. To avoid the article's current US-centrism, it should also describe objects of value that could be found elsewhere in the world, and values that people around the world can relate to. i.e. not just hamburgers / coffee / houses / etc. bought in the US. Of course, it may be that this is not possible without dealing with the subject of exchange rates, and differing values of objects around the world. But then any article related to generic money would need to deal with these topics.

On another tack, the article currently uses short scale billions without mentioning this. Not everyone in the world agrees with this definition. Milliards are used outside Europe, and the UK (which is in Europe) no longer uses the term milliard. Milliard is therefore best referred as long scale rather than European. (Alternatively, use 'thousand million' instead of milliard.) Ian Cairns 21:48, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I don't think it makes sense to have long-scale and short-scale numbers in this article. Since the reference is US dollars, the numbers should use US short-scale numbers.

[edit] orders of magnitude expressed incorrectly

an object of magnitude 10^x is not in the form a10^x where 10 > a > 1 . An object of order of magnitude 10^x must be between 5*10^x-1 and 5*10^x. Therefore several points on this table are wrong. I am not good with wiki code for tables, so could someone else please correct this. Quantum Burrito 20:17, 18 September 2007 (UTC)