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Becky1 Posted 10 years ago
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Short paragraph
Life is too funny...made me chuckle to think that the world population is 7,415,763,0XX billion and still counting... Just shows how insignificant human beings really are!
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Life is too funny...made me chuckle to think that the world population is 7,415,763,0XX billion and still counting... Just shows how insignificant civilizations being really are!
Are both ok?
Or
Life is too funny...made me chuckle to think that the world population is 7,415,763,0XX billion and still counting... Just shows how insignificant civilizations being really are!
Are both ok?
Top answer
The second does not work. 4 billion.
- The second does not work.
- 4 billion.
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2 Answers
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The second does not work.
You need to write 7.4157630XX billion (unnatural), 7,415,763,0XX or 7.4 billion.
You need to write 7.4157630XX billion (unnatural), 7,415,763,0XX or 7.4 billion.
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The focus is on people (ie human beings), not on civilizations, so version ! makes more sense than version 2.
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