>>The North Amercian definition of a billion is one thousand million.
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>>1,000,000 <--- million
>>1,000,000,000 <---- billion
>>1,000,000,000,000 <---- trillion
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>>Wait... maybe it was "trillion" that was mentioned. Either way, could appreciate any comments on this, especially from the UK.
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>Might this have been based on the difference between dollars and pounds? For example 1 pound is equal to (at this point in time) $2.20 canadian. If you had 1,000,000 canadian dollars you would be a millionare. A person in the U.K. however would have 454,546 pounds.
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>Not sure if this was the basis but theres economics 101 :-)

Nope. I know the exchange rate. :-) But, the impression I got was that either billion or trillion was defined differently in the UK.

IE. A trillion in the UK was.. 3 billion or something like that, or that "trillion" is not even a term in UK english.