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Ah, I remember when a billion really was a billion. These paltry thousand millions are chicken feed. "Previously in British English (but not in American Englis
by beardyw 3y ago
Ah, I remember when a billion really was a billion. These paltry thousand millions are chicken feed.
"Previously in British English (but not in American English), the word "billion" referred exclusively to a million millions (1,000,000,000,000). However, this is not common anymore, and the word has been used to mean one thousand million (1,000,000,000) for several decades."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000,000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000,000
- pepa65 3y agobillion = million x million [bi] trillion = million x million x million [tri] This is still the case in Dutch for instance, where 1e9 is a "miljard".