>>>When Canada was making the change to the metric system, a lot of people were grumbling about it. The coworker of a friend of mine was very angry about it and she was actually heard to complain that "Next they're going to do it to our money!"
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>>And they never did, did they? It still doesn't have one thousand millidollars to a dollar.
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>>BTW, what they call "billion" here we call "milijarda". Now the €0.02 question is how big is it?
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>>Hard to show, but it's approximately 0.9144 millimeters.
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>That's one of the gripes that Europeans have. A billionaire here is considered small change compared to a billionaire there.
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For the uninitiated... "jarda" is how we pronounce a yard, so a milliyard would be a thousandth part of one.