Doc Brown annoys me. · 7:49am Sep 20th, 2017
"1.21 gigawatts"
You may have read that "one point twenty one jigga-whats" (no hard "R"s here.)
First, it's gigawatt like a gigabyte like the hard "G" from the word "Gangrene". But that isn't my issue.
In a decimal number, it should be "point unit unit" not "point ten unit". The first decimal place is one number, and the second ios a seperate number. It isn't "one point twenty one" it's "One point two one".
I hear people say things like this all the time and like, it's secondary school maths. Is it one of those likes Americans get wrong, like the way they prononced words like "toe-may-toe", "Yo-gurt" or "pants"?