In languages that use short scale, you say "milliard" to mean "billion". You say "billion" to mean "trillion". It's very confusing and a frequent source of erro

In languages that use short scale, you say "milliard" to mean "billion". You say "billion" to mean "trillion". It's very confusing and a frequent source of errors in translation. Every time I see the Czech word for "billion", I have to think about whether they mean 10^9 or 10^12.