centi

Hitting a modern city with 3 low-centi-ton yield airbursts will do a lot more damage than one megaton class one.

Maybe sometimes self-made billionaires and centi-millionaires know what they are doing.

If you're up against companies with centi-billion cash reserves, yes.

No, he meant centimillionaire / centi-millionaire.

If various professionals employed by the state were paid in accordance of their value to the society (even if only to a certain slice of society), members of the armed forces would be centi-millionaires.

> members of the armed forces would be centi-millionaires.

Well if you remember the bottled water centi-thread then perhaps you remember the discussions on that thread about cost and where the 30M from was $2/bottle for 'SmartWater' * 3 bottles a day * 365 days a year * 14,200 employees.

It lets you write code like: *Main> 2 meter + (1 meter / second) * 5 second 7.0 m A really cute feature is that prefixes like centi and deci are functions: *Main> gallon `as` (cubic (deci meter)) 4.546089999999999 dm⋅dm⋅dm⋅# It gives you an error if the dimensions don't match, but unfortunately the error messages are hideous.

You've essentially described a plan akin to converting everything in the US to New Metric (a system that is similar to metric but has 2.7182 as the scaling factor for centi, mega, and tera but 3.141 for kilo, 10 for giga, and the unit of length will be the new metre which corresponds to 0.707 of a mile).

The actual values of the metric system are just as arbitrary as US Custom/Imperial (a particular mass, 1/10,000,000 part of the quarter of a meridian, such and such hyperfine transitions in a arbitrary atom, &.) The value of the metric system is decimalization -- the centi-, kilo-, mega- prefixes.

Tons of people are "centi"-readers; they make it through four pages of a four-hundred-page book.

The threshold for the 1% is "centi-millionaire," eh?

To anyone who might adopt "centireading" as a neologism, just want to point out that the correct SI prefix for 100x is "hecto." "Centi" is a hundredth of something, not a hundred something.

Centi-millionare implies a worth of $10,000 each, or $14 million for everybody.

Centi can designate 100 of something or one-hundredth of something.