{"id":1887,"date":"2013-05-15T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2013-05-15T21:01:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:01:31","slug":"dictionary-of-numbers-xkcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/dictionary-of-numbers-xkcd\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictionary of Numbers | xkcd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t like large numbers without context. Phrases like \u201cthey called for a $21 billion budget cut\u201d or \u201cthe probe will travel 60 billion miles\u201d or \u201ca 150,000-ton ship ran aground\u201d don\u2019t mean very much to me on their own. Is that a large ship? Does 60 billion miles take you outside the Solar System? How much is $21 billion compared to the overall budget? (That last question is \u00a0why I made my\u00a0money chart.)<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine, Glen Chiacchieri, has created a Chrome extension to help solve this problem:\u00a0Dictionary of Numbers.\u00a0It searches the text in your browser for quantities it understands and inserts contextual statements in brackets. It might turn the phrase \u201c315 million people\u201d into \u201c315 million people [\u2248 the population of the United States]\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.xkcd.com\/2013\/05\/15\/dictionary-of-numbers\/?utm_source=feedly\">Dictionary of Numbers | xkcd<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t like large numbers without context. Phrases like \u201cthey called for a $21 billion budget cut\u201d or \u201cthe probe will travel 60 billion miles\u201d or \u201ca 150,000-ton ship ran aground\u201d don\u2019t mean very much to me on their own. Is that a large ship? Does 60 billion miles take you outside the Solar System? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-ur","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}