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Inside the new £2,500,000,000 Leeds tram system with airport connection (metro.co.uk)

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Could have just said 2.5 billion.

[–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

That's not the price - that's just what it looks like from the side. ASCII art innit.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Humbly disagree; I'm on a mini-crusade to encourage people to always write out huge numbers in full, because of the tendency of human minds to not fully process just how huge a number a billion is.

For example, when discussing working conditions at Amazon, one should write out Jeff Bezos' net worth as $215,000,000,000 so we can see the zeroes. He could lose $5,000,000,000 and still have $210,000,000,000 left.