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SwedeTeam What's a Billion...?


Ambiguity around interpretations of a few words:

Numeric English English US English Swedish
1 000 thousand thousand tusen
1 000 000 million million miljon
1 000 000 000 milliard billion miljard
1 000 000 000 000 billion trillion biljon, billion
1 000 000 000 000 000 trillion quadrillion (triljon, trillion - old, not used any longer)

 

"1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or milliard, yard, long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. ... Previously in British English (but not in American English), the word "billion" referred exclusively to a million millions (1,000,000,000,000)." (google whats a billion)

wikipedia.org Billion

 

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