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 stands for umber able orting caled and display numbers with short or long scales in a sortable table and have them numerically sorted in alphabetic sort mode. It is applied to all numbers of a column, in cases where numeric sort mode does not work or is not desired.

Usage
Where:


 * value - the significant value that will be displayed in front of the scale (required).
 * scale - scale used with value, see below.
 * long - if included, will use long scales, otherwise uses short scales; see below.
 * prefix - String to display before the number.

Decimal scales
Using long and short scales:
 * thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion

The "long" (old British) scales differ from "billion" (1012) onwards. When using long scales, this template also accepts the following -iard scales:
 * milliard, billiard, trilliard, quadrilliard

Bit and byte scales
Using standard SI prefixes:
 * bit, kbit, Mbit, Gbit, Tbit, Pbit, Ebit, Zbit, Ybit
 * byte or "B", kB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB, YB

Using binary prefixes:
 * kibit, Mibit, Gibit, Tibit, Pibit, Eibit, Zibit, Yibit
 * kiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB, YiB