Here are some common confusion for non-Chinese readers.
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For illustration, China’s population is 1.3 billion
(actually 1.375 B in 2018). However, Chinese would tell you it is 13 billion. Our
system is more rational by having a term for every three zeros such as
thousand, million, billion… Chinese has a term for 10,000 and it has merit as
10,000 is a popular unit.
·
China is officially named as “People’s Republic
of China” as the name “Republic of China” has been taken by Taiwan. Chinese
like to add “People’s” in many other names. Some Chinese think “People’s” is
better but in reality not necessarily.
·
China’s currency is Yuan (translated as “dollar”).
Renminbi is translated as “People’s
money”. They are exactly the same.
·
Chinese use metric system.
# Filler: Fact or not
The USA
never wants to adopt the metric system. It is mainly due to the love of our
football game which uses yards. 0.9 meter does not sound right, right?
At one
time, when two identical missiles were fired between here and Russia, the
Russian missile would arrive here earlier due to no extra calculation to
convert to metric values. It is not true now as the CPU is super fast today.
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