Comment by dotancohen
12 days ago
> 46,255 mm²
To be clear: that's the thousandths separator, not the Nordic decimal. It's the size of a cat, not the size of a thumbnail.
12 days ago
> 46,255 mm²
To be clear: that's the thousandths separator, not the Nordic decimal. It's the size of a cat, not the size of a thumbnail.
*thousands, not thousandths, right?
The correct number is fourty six thousand, two hundred and fifty five square mm.
Whoa, I just realized that the comma is the thousands separator when writing out the number in English words.
or about 0.23 furlongs
More like one thousanth percent of an acre.
(wow, that is not much?)
This is why space is the only acceptable thousands/grouping separator (a non-breaking space when possible). Avoids any confusion.
Space is also confusing! Then it looks like two separate numbers.
Underscore (_) is already used as a decimal separator in programming languages and Mathematics should just adopt it, IMO.
A competing format to simplify things?
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You mean thousands separator, yes? Agreed, it’s annoying when languages don’t have this feature.
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A thin non-breaking space also clears up the confusion without the visual clutter of the underscore. It's just inconvenient to use
The problem is our primitive text representation online. The formatting should be localized but there’s not a number type I can easily insert inline in a text box.
46_255
Thanks, I was acutally wondering how would someone even manage to make that big a chip.
It's a whole wafer. Basically all chips are made on wafers that big, but normally it's a lot of different chips, you cut the wafer into small chips and throw the bad ones away.
Cerebras has other ways of marking the defects so they don't affect things.