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Seems to have been fixed: "£800 billion ($1 trillion)"
by arethuza 8y ago
Seems to have been fixed: "£800 billion ($1 trillion)"
- minikites 8y agoPerhaps related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales?
- Symbiote 8y agoUnlikely, the long scale form has been obsolete in Britain for decades. I've heard people say things like "thousand million", but I've never heard "milliard", and never heard "billion" to mean 10¹².
- LeonM 8y agoYep, this was added at the end of the article: > Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the value of assets moving in pounds.