Reply to post: Re: Amounts so huge, that I simply can't process them.

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Thursday 27th September 2018 14:23 GMT Anonymous Coward

Re: Amounts so huge, that I simply can't process them.

There is a handy metric for handling such situations, called the "Megaton".

Out of innocent curiosity, may I ask if that's a million American metric tons, or a million Imperial metric tons?

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