Nobody in a casual English (and Asian too from my experience) conversation will mean billion to be 10^12. English sphere predominantly uses the short scale. Th

Nobody in a casual English (and Asian too from my experience) conversation will mean billion to be 10^12. English sphere predominantly uses the short scale. That being said, there is no official word but two globally used scales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_...