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This is a normal post I always get confused....
Isn't it right that an American billion is different to a UK billion? Like our billion is a million millions but theirs is a thousand million? Or something? Or other?
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 16:49, Reply)
This is a normal post officially the UK and the US have the same scale, where 1 billion is 1000 million
but the old UK scale (and most of non-english speaking western europe) uses milliard as 1000 million, with billion as a million million.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
(, Mon 16 Mar 2009, 16:57, Reply)