RE: billions across the world in english

At 01:34 AM 7/1/00 +0100, you wrote:

>>I hate to add to the confusion, so let's set things straight: in The
>>Netherlands as almost anywhere else in the world a thousand million is
>>ordinarily called a milliard. A million million is a billion, and a
>>thousand billion is a billiard.
>>
>>thousand 1,000
>>million  1,000,000
>>milliard 1,000,000,000
>>billion  1,000,000,000,000
>>billiard 1,000,000,000,000,000
>>
>>The mistake of calling a billion what is really a milliard is purely an
>>American one, and perhaps even British.
thousand 1,000
Million 1,000,000
Billion 1,000,000,000
Trillion 1,000,000,000,000
Quadrillion 1,000,000,000,000,000
Quintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Sextillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Septillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Bill Gates 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 / 2


Br. Elias Thienpont OSB
http://www.assumptionabbey.com

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