• Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I might be remembering this incorrectly, but a billion in Europe used to be a million million, and we would count in thousands of millions first, as opposed to a billion now being a thousand million.

    I can’t remember whether a trillion was a million (old) billion, or whether it was a billion billion.