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Subject:RE: how much is a billion From:"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:00:54 -0400
Correct. A British Billion is 1,000 times bigger than a US Billion.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amanda Nance [SMTP:Amanda -dot- Nance -at- VITALPS -dot- COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:57 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Cc: 'nance_aj -at- acadmn -dot- mercer -dot- edu'
> Subject: how much is a billion
>
> Is it true that in some non-US countries, "one billion" means
> 1,000,000,000,000 - what people in the US call "one trillion"? I heard
> that
> in some places "billion" means "one million times one million," rather
> than
> one thousand times one million.
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