Talk:Satoshi (unit) - Revision history

Taras at 05:25, 28 August 2015

2015-08-28T05:25:00Z

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TheRealSteve: /* How To Pluralize Satoshi (Unit) */

2015-04-20T13:55:40Z

How To Pluralize Satoshi (Unit)

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	I was wondering whether anyone has strong evidence for prefering one form over the other so we can update the FAQ and this page accordingly. (Mainly, I'm interested because I help maintain the Bitcoin.org developer documentation which makes extensive use of the regular plural form, and I want to know whether we should switch to the irregular plural form.) --[[User:Harding\|Harding]] ([[User talk:Harding\|talk]]) 19:22, 6 December 2014 (UTC)		I was wondering whether anyone has strong evidence for prefering one form over the other so we can update the FAQ and this page accordingly. (Mainly, I'm interested because I help maintain the Bitcoin.org developer documentation which makes extensive use of the regular plural form, and I want to know whether we should switch to the irregular plural form.) --[[User:Harding\|Harding]] ([[User talk:Harding\|talk]]) 19:22, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
			:Came here from the [[Units]] page which uses the form 'satoshis'. Decided to do a completely unscientific study with Google, using the search phrase 'bitcoin "x satoshi"' and 'bitcoin "x satoshis"' where x was the numbers 2-10, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000 and 100,000,000 as well as their written form. All in all, for numerical writing, ''Satoshi'' beat out ''Satoshis'' 4:1. For written form, ''Satoshi'' beat out 'Satoshis'' 1.23:1.
			:There are some notable exceptions. 'Two' sees far many more 'Satoshis' than 'Satoshi'. This may be a result of "just my two satoshis" akin to "my two cents". 'Hundred million' (the number of Satoshi(s) per Bitcoin) sees vastly more counts of 'Satoshis' than it does 'Satoshi'.
			: Graph: http://i.imgur.com/htNFx7j.png
			: [[User:TheRealSteve\|TheRealSteve]] ([[User talk:TheRealSteve\|talk]]) 13:55, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Harding: Is it 100 satoshi or 100 satoshis?

2014-12-06T19:22:36Z

Is it 100 satoshi or 100 satoshis?

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== How To Pluralize Satoshi (Unit) ==

In [[User:Theymos]]'s recent edit of the [[FAQ]], he says: "The plural of satoshi is satoshi: 'Send me 100 satoshi'." I'm not sure how common this irregular plural form is. The regular form does seem to be at least somewhat common:

* http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/114/what-is-a-satoshi
* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14438.20
* More: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22satoshis%22

I was wondering whether anyone has strong evidence for prefering one form over the other so we can update the FAQ and this page accordingly. (Mainly, I'm interested because I help maintain the Bitcoin.org developer documentation which makes extensive use of the regular plural form, and I want to know whether we should switch to the irregular plural form.) --[[User:Harding|Harding]] ([[User talk:Harding|talk]]) 19:22, 6 December 2014 (UTC)