Iarăşi ajung spre The Streets, cu acelaşi sentiment că nici nu ştiu de unde să îi iau să ascult/prind tot ce trebuie. Eh, le luăm pe rând.

Dar căutând o imagine/descriere pentru un Facebook post (of all things, pentru că aşa se posteayă pe facebook - căutând jumătate de oră cuvintele, ce melodie ar trebui pusă etc.) am ajuns la un articol surprinyător Guardian - OMM's Top 50 Albums of the Decade 00-09.
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The Streets - Original Pirate Material


Prima întrebare - de ce?

The two most important criteria for any self-respecting album-of-the-decade contender to meet are that it could not conceivably have been made in any other 10-year period, and that it should be impossible to imagine how that decade might have sounded without it. And the Streets' triumphantly down-home 2002 debut, Original Pirate Material, ticks these boxes for the first decade of the 21st century with the same winning flourish as Massive Attack's Blue Lines did for the 1990s. 

As large as the album looms over the British musical landscape of late 2009, its roots were to be found in the heyday of UK garage.
So as well as giving Skinner confidence, did the crossover success of UK garage also give him something to react against? "I've probably said it too many times now," he nods apologetically, "but that's where Original Pirate Material came from: all this stuff about get the girl and drink champagne on the dancefloor, it sounds nice to my ears, and I like that bass line, but sorry mate, I don't know what you're talking about.'"

Trebuie să citesc şi cartea lui Skinner; sper să nu fiu dezamăgit.

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Hungary's currency before WWII, the Pengo, suffered the highest rate of hyperinflation ever recorded. In 1946, Hungary issued the 100 Million Billion Pengo. That's right: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 Pengos. It was worth only about 20 cents US! The prices were doubling every fifteen hours in the last period, so on July, 1946, the country replaced its currency by the forint, which is the still the official today. The Hungarian Bank actually printed notes of one milliard b.-pengo (one sextillion pengo) but never issued them.

Si ca sa nu fie doar trivia tot postul - exista doua scari de masurare; una logica si una americana :

Long scale is the English translation of the French term échelle longue. It refers to a system of large-number names in which every new term greater than million is a million times the previous term. Thus, billion means a million millions (10¹²), trillion means a million billions (10¹⁸), and so on.^[1][2]

Short scale is the English translation of the French term échelle courte. It refers to a system of large-number names in which every new term greater than million is 1,000 times the previous term. Thus, billion means a thousand millions (10⁹), trillion means a thousand billions (10¹²), and so on.

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Asadar... una merge pe logica, unde milionul este o masura, cealalta unde mia este o masura (bilingv, si ramaneti cu mine daca tot ati ajuns aici; pentru ca tot am taiat ce scrisesem mai jos o sa mentionez ca Romania foloseste sistemul lung:)

Value in Scientific notation	Value in numerals	Short Scale		Long Scale
		Name	Logic	Name	Logic
100	1	one		one
101	10	ten		ten
102	100	hundred		hundred
103	1,000	thousand		thousand
104	10,000	ten thousand		ten thousand
105	100,000	hundred thousand		hundred thousand
106	1,000,000	million	1,000×1,0001	million	1,000,0001
109	1,000,000,000	billion	1,000×1,0002	thousand million or milliard
1012	1,000,000,000,000	trillion	1,000×1,0003	billion	1,000,0002
1015	1,000,000,000,000,000	quadrillion	1,000×1,0004	thousand billion or billiard
1018	etc	quintillion	1,000×1,0005	trillion	1,000,0003
1021	etc	sextillion	1,000×1,0006	thousand trillion or trilliard
1024	etc	septillion	1,000×1,0007	quadrillion	1,000,0004
etc.	etc.	To get from one named order of magnitude to the next: multiply by 1,000		To get from one named order of magnitude to the next: multiply by 1,000,000

Am vazut in filme cand eram mai verde diferenta intre ceea ce vor americanii sa spuna si ce stiam eu ca folosesc, desi recunosc ca pana recent nu stiam ca limba engleza are conceptul de miliard.

E ok si sistemul "nou", cel scurt cu puteri de o mie in sensul in care numarul 1 este o 1,000⁰,apoi urmeaza mia (1,000¹), milionul (puterea 2), bilionul (puterea 3), trilionul (puterea 4), catralionul (puterea 5). Practic reiterez partea stanga a tabelului de mai sus. DAR daca am reformulat asa (adica in loc sa-i spun bilionului 1,000×1,000³ ca in tabel i-am spus 1,000⁴) apare o discordanta. Pentru bilion avem puterea 3, trilion avem puterea 4, catralion avem puterea 5 si urechile sunt proper zgariate.

Pe cand dincolo e mai simplu.
Milionul de baza, apoi
milion de milioane = bilion,
milion de (bilioane) = milion de (milion de milioane) = trilion
milion de (trilioane) = milion de (milion de (milion de milioane)) = catralion

Intre ele sunt -ardele.
MIE de milioane = miliARD,
MIE de bilioane = biliARD,
MIE de trilioane = triliARD,
MIE de catraliarde = catraliARD

Si eu care credeam in copilarie ca miliard de catralioane nu exista...

Pentru o varianta foarte explicativa - un Numberphile de acum cateva luni: