J. Jih in USMA 15774 misquotes Rowlett who makes it clear that the European billion is 10^12.
>See this page at http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/large.html and both >European and "American" >definitions of a billion are of French origin. In practice, anything over >trillion is rarely used. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
