Get it?
Now you’re just being silly and quickly moving towards the troll category…
No one uses scientific notation when referring to dollar amounts.
Get it?
It is just as silly to refer to the national debt in terms of billions of dollars. We left the billion dollar range and entered the trillion dollar range a very long time ago. Have you ever heard of anyone, for example, referring to the debt as almost “$20 thousand billion”? Of course not. And it was just as silly for the author of this “news” story to write the debt amount, for example, as “$19,947 billion”. It was totally unnecessary and caused confusion. Look at how many FReepers on this thread got tripped up because of that.
Get it?