Talk:Incident (Scientology)

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[edit] Long scale/short scale

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I'm intrigued by the Long scale/short scale notation you added to Incident (Scientology), but how do we know for sure which Hubbard intended? He was very British-oriented in his thinking, which would make me tend to agree that he was thinking Long scale, but how can we say for sure? wikipediatrix 19:05, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

He was born in the USA and undoubtedly have been taught with the short scale number system. I added clarification based on that assumption. Without my assumption, the article remains vague. Feel free to verify that Hubbard used the Short Scale throughout his writings. Cheers. --Mal 19:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but he was an extreme anglophile and invariably used British spellings and measurements (such as Hogshead). Until we know for sure - and I'm not sure we can - it would be original research to declare it one way or the other in the article. wikipediatrix 19:19, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] contested statement removed

• (or 89 trillion trillion years ago in another Hubbard lecture {{Fact|date=December 2006}} ).

Please do not return this information to the article without a citation.--BirgitteSB 19:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)