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I hope people don't confuse the English billion (10^9) with the billion in some other countries (10^12) where they use "milliard" or similar for 10^9.
by foobarian 4y ago
I hope people don't confuse the English billion (10^9) with the billion in some other countries (10^12) where they use "milliard" or similar for 10^9.
- brutusborn 4y agoI've never seen anything but 10^9 used for billions in the modern era, although it is in some >100 y.o. text books. Have you seen 10^12 in the wild lately?
- ferrocarraiges 4y agoI often wonder why people don't use SI prefixes for money. We could say that they've spent on the order of 10 gigadollars.
- selfmodruntime 4y agoI really like the idea of using gigadollars in daily conversations.
- profstasiak 4y agoI think everyone with English as Second Language got used to that difference. Especially in startup world, or country economics billion is an often mentioned quantity of money