alt Hacker News1,3k years ago is such a weird way to write it. Makes sense if we are talking millions of years, but why not write "in 700" or just "1300 years ago"
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Ekaros • today at 8:26 AM
Century would be plenty. And having Rome mentioned with some weird negative number leads to first thought being English in Roman era? How does this deduct...
electroglyph • today at 8:21 AM
it was 1.3e-6 billion years ago!
pegasus • today at 7:53 AM
Yeah, I felt the same. Especially since 1300 uses the same numbers of characters as 1.3k
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The title is from the HN user, the actual post uses 1,300 everywhere.
So you can write it down to tech brainrot.