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Comment by borge | Hacker News Reader

The math seems to be a bit off

$860B / 5000000 people (2013, wikipedia) = $172000

"The fund, worth about $800bn (£483bn), owns 1% of the entire world's stocks, and is big enough to make every citizen a millionaire in the country's currency, the kroner."

$860B USD = 7T KR / 5M people = 1.4M KR each

I'm not sure why you responded to the parent, instead of the grandparent, which first asserted "$1 million" implying dollars.

Because the parent was the one I was clarifying for.

I suggest you use "," when writing long numbers -> 5,000,000

This way it's easier to read for the rest of us.

Sorry about that, I'll keep it in mind for the future :)

Comma is the decimal separator in many countries (including Norway). ISO and several other standards bodies recommend space for digit grouping: 5 000 000.

Only if 'the rest of us' is located in one of the blue areas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#/media/File:Decim...

His point isn't about commas over periods, it is that "5000000" without any delimiters is hard to read.

Yes and i dont use Arabic numerals. Whats it in Roman?

To be fair, considering China and India are included, I think that's more than half the world population. China, India and the US make up more than 40% of the world population alone, apparently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

(The US is the 3rd most populous country by the Wikipedia hivemind's reckoning. Who knew?)

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