I’m not across the scope of hearing aid technology, but what does the product at that upper tier actually look like, and how much does it cost in another country?
I’m envisioning some highly specialised and tuned implant at that price.
You generally get a custom mold for your ear canals and a specially tuned DSP for your frequency curves + BT connection to your phone for calls, at least. Your device can be retuned over and over as long as it functions, too.
What drives the prices up is a multitude of factors: High end DSPs, micro speakers which can do good sound reproduction at required frequencies, relatively low sales volume, R&D expenses and of course an insatiable appetite for profits.
These things always cost and arm and a leg in here, too.
> Ours, on the other hand, does it mod 3, e.g. 10 ^ {1, 3, 6, 9}. Thousands, millions, billions, et cetera.
To make matters more confusing, for American English it goes millions, billions, trillions. For British English it used to go millions, milliards, billions, billiards, trillions, trilliards. (That 'long scale' is still the way German used to work ten years ago. No clue if it changed in the meantime.)
Thanks! In germany we use the long scale, and this is the first time it clicks.
"Eine Billion" is Million² bi -> 2
"Eine Billiarde" is 1000 * Million²
"Eine Trillion" is million³ tri -> 3
"Eine Trilliarde" is 1000 * Million³
And so on
Yes I knew what a million, milliard, billion, billiarde and so on are, but it never made click that the long scale makes so much sense.
I feel like at that point, I would rather just use scientific notation (10^x).
I also like the easy suffix for thousand (k), million (M), billion (B), trillion (T), quadrillion (Q) for written conversation. $10B revenue, 5k liters, 300M people, etc.
It isn’t consistent, but a lot more people can fluently read “B” for billion rather than “G” giga and understand 10^9. The SI prefix “k” is sufficiently used that it is understood.
Yes, and something like scientific notation is used fairly often even in lay contexts.
Eg it's common to read sentences like the following in popular science texts: 'ACME produces one quintillion widgets per year, that's a one followed eighteen zeroes.' The second half is basically scientific notation, but written out.
For those who don't recognize the ₹ symbol it is the symbol for the Indian Rupee and an "L" after a number means 100,000, so ₹ 8L is ₹ 800,000.
At current exchange rates that puts hearing aids in India from $600 to upwards of $9,500.
AirPods Pro 2 are ₹ 24,900 ($295).