> Where? I'm British and old and, apart from in reference books much older than me, I've never seen the long scale used in any context. Vestiges of it pop up

> Where? I'm British and old and, apart from in reference books much older than me, I've never seen the long scale used in any context. Vestiges of it pop up from time to time. It's not really something you can Google directly for, but as an indication, literally the second hit on Google for "thousand million" - a term that only exists due to the long scale, and which is obsolete in the short scale - is an article about a Brexit-related bus ad: https://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/brexit-bus-is-2000-million-a-real-number-or-should-it-be-2-billion-36629390.html https://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/brexit-bus...