Quote Originally Posted by Yuyn View Post
There's an astounding amount of misinformation and misunderstanding in this thread...

(1) The primary reason they decided to squish was to make the numbers smaller. Smaller numbers are easier to visually distinguish, and easier for people to understand. Suffixes don't fix this.

As an example, try to quickly order the following two lists of numbers from smallest to largest:

100
10000
1000
1000000

100K
100B
100M
1000
100T

If you're like most people, the first was easier because the quicker visual distinction. When numbers are different by at least an order of magnitude, the full number is much easier to deal with.
Thank you for this. Giant numbers and suffixes are the least appealing thing. Why would anyone even consider it..