Here’s how you say the new Youtube maximum view limit, in English and Chinese

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Youtube announced this week that they never expected one of their videos would be watched in numbers larger than a 32-bit integer, or 2,147,483,647 — That is until South Korean music sensation Psy posted his video “Gangnam Style”, which prompted Youtube to increase their maximum view limit to a 64-bit integer — 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. Here’s a tip on how to say this numerical mouthful in English and Chinese.

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In case you were just born, here’s the original video that broke the first Youtube counter: