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Quote from: Stephen Gornick on April 04, 2013, 10:44:53 PM

Quote from: Elwar on April 04, 2013, 09:26:24 PM

In the near future we will likely be talking about bitcoins using the mBTC valuation for common items.

What should the naming convention be when speaking of milli-bitcoins(hyphen?)?

What about symbol? m฿?

Well, if polls matter, this was already voted on two years ago:

Quote from: BitcoinBonus on May 14, 2011, 10:52:22 AM

what should we call a milli-Bitcoin ?

And the winner is ....

"millibit":
- http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MilliBit

Isn't this the name of a client?

I prefer bitmill or millibitcoin. Millibit means 0.001 bits, which is a unit of information, not currency.

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Quote from: Elwar on April 04, 2013, 09:26:24 PM

In the near future we will likely be talking about bitcoins using the mBTC valuation for common items.

What should the naming convention be when speaking of milli-bitcoins(hyphen?)?

What about symbol? m฿?

Well, if polls matter, this was already voted on two years ago:

Quote from: BitcoinBonus on May 14, 2011, 10:52:22 AM

what should we call a milli-Bitcoin ?

And the winner is ....

"millibit":
- http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MilliBit

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Quote from: Mike Christ on April 04, 2013, 10:03:18 PM

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I'm starting to dig mills now.

Mills is linguistically correct, and actually still in quite common use (more so than the Wiki article implies) for property - and other - levies.

Besides; who wants to spend their lives dealing in a currency unit that was named after a dead Bush-family dog? That past is best forgotten.

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Learn something new every day Grin

I'm starting to dig mills now.

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Quote from: yucca on April 04, 2013, 09:44:15 PM

There is no ambiguity here, the scientifically correct (latin based) prefixes are:

For one thousandth it is "milli" or "m" for short. as in milliBitcoins or mBTC

For one millionth it is "micro" or "μ" for short. as in microBitcoins or μBTC

As bitcoin is based on cryptographic computation i think we should be scientific.

...except this isn't about prefixes - it's about nouns.

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Back in ancient times, when the USD was more valuable, the convention for talking about 1/1000 of a dollar was referred to as a "mill" and "mills". Since that formation has half the number of syllables as any of the suggestions in this poll that's what I'd expect to be more common.

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There is no ambiguity here, the scientifically correct (latin based) prefixes are:

For one thousandth it is "milli" or "m" for short. as in milliBitcoins or mBTC

For one millionth it is "micro" or "μ" for short. as in microBitcoins or μBTC

As bitcoin is based on cryptographic computation i think we should be scientific.

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The answer is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZFkXi-E9dQ&t=0m26s

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Quote from: Mike Christ on April 04, 2013, 09:38:18 PM

Quote from: dree12 on April 04, 2013, 09:36:54 PM

The correct one would technically be "mill", as that is the proper term for 1/1000 of a currency unit.

Sounds a lot like "million"--e.g. "A cool mil"

That's only true because of inflation. The mill is still sometimes used in specialized fields, but was once a common unit of exchange.

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Quote from: dree12 on April 04, 2013, 09:36:54 PM

The correct one would technically be "mill", as that is the proper term for 1/1000 of a currency unit.

Sounds a lot like "million"--e.g. "A cool mil"

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The correct one would technically be "mill", as that is the proper term for 1/1000 of a currency unit.

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The English Nazi within screams "millies" Tongue

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In the near future we will likely be talking about bitcoins using the mBTC valuation for common items.

What should the naming convention be when speaking of milli-bitcoins(hyphen?)?

What about symbol? m฿?

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