"Officially, numbers greater than a million were represented by the long scale.
However, since January 21, 2013, the modified short scale (under which the long scale milliard is substituted for the strict short scale billion), which was already the colloquial standard, became official:
Base 32, a system that can be written with both all Arabic numerals and all Hebrew letters, much as how Base 36 is written with all Arabic numerals and roman letters."
~ as the interpretation officer Gai of the third rank Andromedan scribe division, on the way through Betelgeuse, the constellation of Orion, rewriting historical annals to dates with an approximate 3 days matching tolerance, noted:
"The Hydra as a Model of Bureaurocratic Dysfunction, by Electra Collective Unconscious"