I'm from Denmark were we use the long scale. I didn't know a long scale form existed in English! It happens quite often that a billion, in English, gets transla

I'm from Denmark were we use the long scale. I didn't know a long scale form existed in English! It happens quite often that a billion, in English, gets translated to a billion in Danish, which is off by 999 billion and, of course, should have been a milliard. ;-) If it happens in Spanish, it probably happens in most of Europe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44509534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44509534