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Is it different in other countries?
by carabiner 3y ago
Is it different in other countries?
- elteto 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_...
- saalweachter 3y ago"A billion dollars isn't cool. You know what is? A billion dollars."
- hvs 3y agoHistorically, in the UK, Australia, and other countries, "one billion" meant "one million million" (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000). Officially, at least in the UK, it now means the same as the US (i.e. 1,000,000,000)
- tromp 3y agoNote that 'billion' and 'trillion' themselves have multiple meanings [1] [2], even though most people use only the short scale. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoYeah. It's called the long and short scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
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