what I have learned today.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

France has the wealthiest billionaires In The World.

Egalite and all that

[ian]

Appropos of billionaires, I learned recently (I think I knew, but I hadn't see it put like this) that humans naturally think about numbers logarithmically, which is why we're not truly shocked by how gargantuan (and grotesque) an amount of money it truly is and what a vast gulf there is between a 'mere' millionaire and a billionaire. Top tip, trying plotting a million and a billion on a non-logarithmic scale.

[Regulator]

France has the wealthiest billionaires In The World.

Egalite and all that

Are you sure about that?    The tope 10 wealthiest people are (in order):

- Jeff Bezos
- Elon Musk
- Bernard Arnault
- Bill Gates
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Warren Buffett
- Larry Ellison
- Larry Page
- Sergey Brin
- Mukesh Ambani

Only one of those is French.  7/10 are American.

The US has 10 times as many billionaires as France - and China has almost 20 time as many.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

France has the wealthiest billionaires In The World.

Egalite and all that

Are you sure about that?    The tope 10 wealthiest people are (in order):

- Jeff Bezos
- Elon Musk
- Bernard Arnault
- Bill Gates
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Warren Buffett
- Larry Ellison
- Larry Page
- Sergey Brin
- Mukesh Ambani

Only one of those is French.  7/10 are American.

The US has 10 times as many billionaires as France - and China has almost 20 time as many.

Examine the picto attentively and you will see it proclaims France has the wealthiest billionaires. Pro rata. US billionaires are ten a penny.

[Regulator]

France has the wealthiest billionaires In The World.

Egalite and all that

Are you sure about that?    The tope 10 wealthiest people are (in order):

- Jeff Bezos
- Elon Musk
- Bernard Arnault
- Bill Gates
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Warren Buffett
- Larry Ellison
- Larry Page
- Sergey Brin
- Mukesh Ambani

Only one of those is French.  7/10 are American.

The US has 10 times as many billionaires as France - and China has almost 20 time as many.

Examine the picto attentively and you will see it proclaims France has the wealthiest billionaires. Pro rata. US billionaires are ten a penny.

Which picto?  You linked to something with 100 slides.

[Mr Larrington]

A billion Venezuelan Bolivars is worth about three hundred and twenty-five quid.

[Kim]

Appropos of billionaires, I learned recently (I think I knew, but I hadn't see it put like this) that humans naturally think about numbers logarithmically, which is why we're not truly shocked by how gargantuan (and grotesque) an amount of money it truly is and what a vast gulf there is between a 'mere' millionaire and a billionaire. Top tip, trying plotting a million and a billion on a non-logarithmic scale.

That explains how we can cope with computers without getting tangled up in metaphysical dichotomy whenever we have to think about gigabytes.

[ian]

Appropos of billionaires, I learned recently (I think I knew, but I hadn't see it put like this) that humans naturally think about numbers logarithmically, which is why we're not truly shocked by how gargantuan (and grotesque) an amount of money it truly is and what a vast gulf there is between a 'mere' millionaire and a billionaire. Top tip, trying plotting a million and a billion on a non-logarithmic scale.

That explains how we can cope with computers without getting tangled up in metaphysical dichotomy whenever we have to think about gigabytes.

Yes, and in the same way, a gigabyte isn't just a bigger kilobyte.

If you set your time machine to whizz you back one million minutes, you'll be enjoying the pre-COVID world of 2019. If you inadvertently set it to one billion minutes, you can wander around the middle-east asking people with beards 'are you Jesus?'

[Mr Larrington]

Surely you'd have to ask “Yea and moreover verily, art thou Jesus, the king of the Israelites, and the Ammonites, and the Midianites, and the Simmonites, and the Canaanites, and the Jacobites, and the Levites, and the Trilobites, and the Ishmaelites, and the Sodomites, and the Adnanites, and the Megabytes, and the Qahtanites, and the Cheesibites?” i.e. in English Just Like Jesus Spoke.

[spesh]

Surely you'd have to ask “Yea and moreover verily, art thou Jesus, the king of the Israelites, and the Ammonites, and the Midianites, and the Simmonites, and the Canaanites, and the Jacobites, and the Levites, and the Trilobites, and the Ishmaelites, and the Sodomites, and the Adnanites, and the Megabytes, and the Qahtanites, and the Cheesibites?” i.e. in English Just Like Jesus Spoke.

And thou shalt knoweth it is He, when He doth reply with benedictions unto the cheese makers...

[Pingu]

Appropos of billionaires, I learned recently (I think I knew, but I hadn't see it put like this) that humans naturally think about numbers logarithmically, which is why we're not truly shocked by how gargantuan (and grotesque) an amount of money it truly is and what a vast gulf there is between a 'mere' millionaire and a billionaire. Top tip, trying plotting a million and a billion on a non-logarithmic scale.

That explains how we can cope with computers without getting tangled up in metaphysical dichotomy whenever we have to think about gigabytes.

Yes, and in the same way, a gigabyte isn't just a bigger kilobyte.

If you set your time machine to whizz you back one million minutes, you'll be enjoying the pre-COVID world of 2019. If you inadvertently set it to one billion minutes, you can wander around the middle-east asking people with beards 'are you Jesus?'

Just look for someone who resembles David Essex in a nightdress.

[Basil]

Surely you'd have to ask “Yea and moreover verily, art thou Jesus, the king of the Israelites, and the Ammonites, and the Midianites, and the Simmonites, and the Canaanites, and the Jacobites, and the Levites, and the Trilobites, and the Ishmaelites, and the Sodomites, and the Adnanites, and the Megabytes, and the Qahtanites, and the Cheesibites?” i.e. in English Just Like Jesus Spoke.

You forgot the Marmites.

[Pingu]

Surely you'd have to ask “Yea and moreover verily, art thou Jesus, the king of the Israelites, and the Ammonites, and the Midianites, and the Simmonites, and the Canaanites, and the Jacobites, and the Levites, and the Trilobites, and the Ishmaelites, and the Sodomites, and the Adnanites, and the Megabytes, and the Qahtanites, and the Cheesibites?” i.e. in English Just Like Jesus Spoke.

You forgot the Marmites.

And the Stalagmites & Stalactites.

[spesh]

Surely you'd have to ask “Yea and moreover verily, art thou Jesus, the king of the Israelites, and the Ammonites, and the Midianites, and the Simmonites, and the Canaanites, and the Jacobites, and the Levites, and the Trilobites, and the Ishmaelites, and the Sodomites, and the Adnanites, and the Megabytes, and the Qahtanites, and the Cheesibites?” i.e. in English Just Like Jesus Spoke.

You forgot the Marmites.

Plus the Armalites and Cenobites.

[Pingu]

And the Coprolites.

[spesh]

Vitalites...

[Basil]

And the complete and utter shites.

[Canardly]

That the French are voting on making short haul internal flights illegal in favour of the train.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Vitalites...

Good prompt. 007!

[Mr Larrington]

And the Wonderlites (remember them?).

[“They were Wonder Lights, clot!” – Ed.]

[Tim Hall]

Appropos of billionaires, I learned recently (I think I knew, but I hadn't see it put like this) that humans naturally think about numbers logarithmically, which is why we're not truly shocked by how gargantuan (and grotesque) an amount of money it truly is and what a vast gulf there is between a 'mere' millionaire and a billionaire. Top tip, trying plotting a million and a billion on a non-logarithmic scale.

That explains how we can cope with computers without getting tangled up in metaphysical dichotomy whenever we have to think about gigabytes.

Yes, and in the same way, a gigabyte isn't just a bigger kilobyte.

If you set your time machine to whizz you back one million minutes, you'll be enjoying the pre-COVID world of 2019. If you inadvertently set it to one billion minutes, you can wander around the middle-east asking people with beards 'are you Jesus?'

Just look for someone who resembles David Essex in a nightdress.

It isn't Jesus. It's just a fella

[spesh]

And the complete and utter shites.

AKA the Bagoshites.

[spesh]

And the Wonderlites (remember them?).

[“They were Wonder Lights, clot!” – Ed.]

Conquered and assimilated by the Maglites.

[Legs]

Not forgetting the Chi-Lites!

[Paul]

That the French are voting on making short haul internal flights illegal in favour of the train.

Ah, the Pasdeflites?