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>I don't know any European country that doesn't use it With the exception of people over 70, the UK has pretty uniformly moved to the American system. All of o
by OtherShrezzing 1y ago
>I don't know any European country that doesn't use it
With the exception of people over 70, the UK has pretty uniformly moved to the American system. All of our govt statistics, corporate finances info, day-to-day conversations involving billions refer to "one thousand million"
- Macha 1y agoSame in Ireland, the long scale was already an elderly person thing when I was a child
- perilunar 1y agoSame in Australia. I vaguely remember learning the old scale at school and being confused by American usage. Now everyone uses short scale, and most young people probably don't even know the old scale existed.