367,700 million Gil?

quoted from SE latest announcement regarding RMT:

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- Total Frozen Gil: Approximately 367,700 million Gil
* Gil of temporarily suspended accounts will be confiscated.

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CMIIW, shouldn't that be 368 "BILLION" Gil instead? Why saying 367,700 million? lol

And theoretically, combining all frozen gill, does amount of billion's even possible? lol

I believe it had something to do with the translation, http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ions-survivors! this thread had many posts about the subject.

I know that thread already. Just pointing the hillarious fact. lol

Think it was a typo, meant only 367,700 Gil only, not millions. lol

Billion in the US is not the same as billion is in other countries. The description given is more international friendly.

And yes, that is probably the actual amount, when adding it up across all the servers.

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Originally Posted by BobbinT

I know that thread already. Just pointing the hillarious fact. lol

Think it was a typo, meant only 367,700 Gil only, not millions. lol

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It's definitely billions. Apparently, there was an item or gil dupe in the game that was abused, before it was patched.

Probably has something to do with Japanese numerical notation.

http://cdn.dualshockers.com/wp-conte...Letter1_11.jpg

As you can see here they shorten 344,000 to 34.4.

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Originally Posted by Earthen

Billion in the US is not the same as billion is in other countries.

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sorry what? lol

u mean the denomination differs, like how the japanese, chinese and korean numbers move up in 10 thousands rather than thousand xD

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Originally Posted by Orophin

Probably has something to do with Japanese numerical notation.

http://cdn.dualshockers.com/wp-conte...Letter1_11.jpg

As you can see here they shorten 344,000 to 34.4.

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This is correct, they don't use a specific word for "million" or "billion" like English does. Japanese uses some amount of "ten thousands" for most large numbers.

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Originally Posted by BobbinT

quoted from SE latest announcement regarding RMT:



CMIIW, shouldn't that be 368 "BILLION" Gil instead? Why saying 367,700 million? lol

And theoretically, combining all frozen gill, does amount of billion's even possible? lol

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they did it in FFXI many times and banned thousands of account every year.

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Originally Posted by Shuon

sorry what? lol

u mean the denomination differs, like how the japanese, chinese and korean numbers move up in 10 thousands rather than thousand xD

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I think a billion in the US is a million million whereas in EU its a thousand million. I'm not 100% sure but I think thats the case.