On 6 May 2020, at 6:29 am, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In class B people deal with huge numbers by downscaling: Millions, > Trillions, GigaBytes and PetaBytes. Nobody really cares if the > stimulus was 1.000.000.000.000 or 1.000.000.000.010 dollars, so > sawing of the right hand side is a good way to make numbers manageable, > at the cost of suffixing multiplier: $125M This makes me wonder whether we should add an example to stimulate readers' imagination in this direction; e.g., Example-ScaledInt: 4503;suffix=M -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/ -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call
