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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