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**carreraboyracer** · 05-26-2012, 01:46 PM

A "billion" used to be, correctly, a million million but sadly the Americans stuffed this up as well and it's only a thousand million as the commonly accepted value.
Just as a trillion should be a million million million - rather than just a million million.

05-26-2012, 01:46 PM	#13
carreraboyracer Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 418 Senior Member	A "billion" used to be, correctly, a million million but sadly the Americans stuffed this up as well and it's only a thousand million as the commonly accepted value. Just as a trillion should be a million million million - rather than just a million million.
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