> All scientific writing in Slovenia uses long scale. I've heard it being used in EU institutions too.
I am able to easily find plenty of Slovenian academics using short scale in their scientific writing. Remember, English is standard for scientific writing and publishing in international journals. I have yet to find a single one using the long-scale, actually.
> observations by cataloging positions and redshifts of billions of galaxies in the next
decade
> and the configuration is stable over billions of years.
> (networks having up to a billion of vertices; there is no limit—except the memory size—on the number of lines
