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Definition of a Billion (North America vs UK)
I heard a question on Jeopardy last week. The implication was the North Amercians have different definition of "billion" than the Brits.
The North Amercian definition of a billion is one thousand million.
1,000,000 <--- million
1,000,000,000 <---- billion
1,000,000,000,000 <---- trillion
Wait... maybe it was "trillion" that was mentioned. Either way, could appreciate any comments on this, especially from the UK.
P.S. I would consider a "trillion" a very non-standard term to start with (at least in Canada). It seems to be the domain of 12 year old boys ("My dad is a trillion times stronger than your dad") and economists ("The debt is 1.3 trillion").
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