Wolfgang Uhlig wrote:

Incorrectly called Billion by some

Billion = 10^9 = 1000,000,000 (Million Million)

see
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rcnh/gs102/SI_prefixes.html

footnote 1 says it all


In German it's even different from what is described in the link. We very regularly
say million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillian, trilliard, etc.


Sorry... but I believe Trillian was a female character from the Hitchhikers Guide....

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