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Yeah, real helpful. Use (B) for billion not whatever G stands for.

• p1mrx 5y ago
  Tera/giga are globally standardized; trillion/billion are ambiguous.
  • bserge 5y ago
    Aight, I'll ask my manager to raise my salary by a few kiloeuros. Fucking ridiculous.
    • jazzyjackson 5y ago
      no really, billion has different meaning around the world. personally I’m a fan of gigabucks, way shorter to say than “billions of dollars”
      • r00fus 5y ago
        In France, they use "milliard" for billions.
      • glogla 5y ago
        Yup, the long and short scale[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale
    • r00fus 5y ago
      Amusingly I think he'd understand your request at least...
    • phaemon 5y ago
      Have you genuinely never seen people refer to, say, $10k to mean ten thousand dollars? It's very common.
  • sedatk 5y ago
    How are trillion and billion ambiguous?
    • hackeraccount 5y ago
      Is a billion a million million, or one followed by twelve noughts (1,000,000,000,000) or is a billion a thousand million? Same thing for a trillion. I think the first is or maybe was a UK'ism. Maybe the rest of the world does that too?
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    • acchow 5y ago
      "billion" in the US means 10^9, but in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, etc means 10^12. Trillion means 10^12 in the US but means 10^18 in the above places.
      • notJim 5y ago
        Is this true even if you're speaking English in France? I would assume in English, it always means 10^9.