5/7/2023 0 Comments Hecta wikipedia![]() Part of the justification of Wikipedia's usage of centimillionaire is Forbes' usage of it. But, he/she has not won the argument on Wikipedia (at least not yet), or the main article would be changed. Whoever wrote this is correct, according to the International System of Units (SI). Is this a correct use of the term centimillionaire? I would have thought a centimillionaire would have a mere $10,000.". "centimillionaire, being someone with 100 million or more. There is on-going discussion on Wikipedia whether centimillionaire or hectomillionaire is correct: (I already have, and it was changed back.) You can go edit and change centimillionaire to be hectomillionaire right now. "A centimillionaire has a net worth of more than 100 million units of currency." - īut, Wikipedia can be changed, by anyone. I wrote it about a year prior to the writing of this article.) The article was not changed, and the author did not write me back. (I could not find a record of this email. ![]() I assumed it was a mistake, and a potentially embarrassing one seeing Forbes is expected to not make mistakes in money terminology. When I first stumbled upon this incorrect usage of the SI prefixes, I emailed the author of the particular Forbes article to correct him. It appears there was intent to use the SI prefixes, but unlike the hectamillionaire spelling mistake, the mistake here is the wrong prefix! There are 45 occasions of Forbes using centimillionaire that Google finds as of today, December 17th, 2006: It seems their mistake was using banks with the spelling mistake as their source of information. Any banks using hectamillionaire should have their spelling corrected and use hectomillionaire instead.Įven incorrectly spells hectomillionaire as hectamillionaire. This is a minor mistake, however, and it is clear the intent was to use the SI prefixes. (Using "deci-" to mean 10, where "deca-" should be used, is also a common mistake.) For example 100 meters is a hectometer, not a hectameter:ĭoes One Letter Matter? Yes! An example from the SI prefixes: If you are to use the SI prefix "hecto-", then you should maintain the "o". This appears to be a small mistake, presumably derived from the "a" in the "deca-" in decamillionaire. Note the "a" in "hecta-" instead of the "o" in "hecto-". The problem is not everyone uses hectomillionaire. If hectomillion equals 100,000,000, then a hectomillionaire is a person worth over $100,000,000. Let's go through the steps that lead to hectomillionaire:Ī hectomillion is 100,000,000, or 100 times a million. The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix "hecto-" to mean 100. If we follow suit with "decamillionaire", and continue to use the SI prefixes for an answer, we will conclude they should be called hectomillionaires. ![]() What about a person worth over $100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars)? If decamillion equals 10,000,000, then a decamillionaire is a person worth over $10,000,000. The International System of Units (SI), the world’s most widely used system of units, defines the prefix "deca-" to mean 10.Ī decamillion is 10,000,000, or 10 times a million. When it is important to differentiate between individuals of "only" a couple million dollars net worth versus those of ten million dollars net worth, decamillionaire is used instead. A person of "only" $2,000,000 net worth is also a multimillionaire. They are also called multimillionaires, but this is less accurate. They are commonly called decamillionaires. ![]() What about a person worth over $10,000,000 (ten million dollars)? You're worth over one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000)!Ī millionaire is a person worth over $1,000,000.Ī billionaire is a person worth over $1,000,000,000.
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