Re: billions across the world in english
by "Comharsa" <comharsa(at)clara.net>
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Thu, 29 Jun 2000 22:10:10 +0100 |
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"Jim Tom Polk" <jtpolk(at)texas.net>,
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From: "Jim Tom Polk"
> I've run across something: does a billion in US English mean the same
> thing as billion elsewhere.
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> US billion:
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> 1,000,000,000
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> enlightment would be appreciated.
Here in the UK a billion used to equal a million million
(1,000,000,000,000). The joke used to be that it was the one thing we had
that was bigger than you <g> (our trillions used to be *really* big).
Now, however, we have accepted the common use and use the same definition of
a thousand million.
Don't know about other countries though.
Brian
comharsa(at)clara.net
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