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wait wait wait, a billion means two different things in Europe and America? I'm from Europe and I always used 1 billion to say 10^9. I hardly see how I would no
by infruset 13y ago
wait wait wait, a billion means two different things in Europe and America? I'm from Europe and I always used 1 billion to say 10^9. I hardly see how I would not have noticed figures being so different in say, news articles from America and Britain.
- hessenwolf 13y agoWhen I was growing up in Ireland, a billion was a million million in Britain and Ireland. Now, we have adopted the American thousand million. In Germany and Italy, a thousand million is a Milliard, and a billion is a trillion.
- rplnt 13y agoSlovak and Czech have it same as Germany/Italy.
- a-priori 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales