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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_scale_users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_sca... The UK is the only place i

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_scale_users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_sca... The UK is the only place in Europe where "billion" means 10^9; in Eastern European languages, there simply isn't an equivalent word, and everywhere else it means 10^12.

leaveyou 8y ago
in romanian it's like in French: million = milion, billion = miliard
viraptor 8y ago
An equivalent word for what? Poland is an EE language and has milion, miliard, bilion, biliard, etc.