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They wouldn't use three trailing zeros. More likely is that they interpreted 1B as a million million, like the British do, instead of 1000 million.
by dhimes 8y ago
They wouldn't use three trailing zeros. More likely is that they interpreted 1B as a million million, like the British do, instead of 1000 million.
- pvaldes 8y agoMaybe a translator thought that it was an error and 'fixed it' adding the extra zero...
- Reason077 8y agoBillion means “1000 million” in British English, not “million million” (which is Trillion).
- dhimes 8y agoDid they change it?
- Reason077 8y agoYes, many decades ago. The modern “short scale” billion Is found in UK technical documents and papers beginning in the 1950s, and used in official UK statistics since 1974. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion