Hi Dragan,

AFAIK you also have european roots? In Norway, and in many other countries, an american billion is call a milliard. This is much more logical really, and I will explain why. This is the european standard, which is a 1E6 standard as opposed to the 1E3 which is used in USA:

1E6*1 = 1E6 = 1 million (m is taken from mono meaning one)
1E9 = 1E6*1E3 = 1 milliard
1E12 = 1E(6*2) = 1 billion (bi means two)
1E15 = 1E12*1E3 = 1 milliard
1E18 = 1E(6*3) = 1 trillion (tri means three)
1E21 = 1E18*1E3 = 1 trilliard
1E24 = 1E(6*4) = 1 quadrillion (quad means four)
1E27 = 1E24*1E3 = 1 quadilliard
1E30 = 1E(6*5) = 1 quintillion (quad means four)
1E33 = 1E30*1E3 = 1 quintilliard
1E36 = 1E(6*6) = 1 sextillion (sex means six)
1E39 = 1E36*1E3 = 1 sextilliard
1E42 = 1E(6*7) = 1 septillion (sept means seven)
1E45 = 1E42*1E3 = 1 septilliard

This means that the number of digits is always easy to remember, it's simply 6xn for the 'illions and (6xn)+3 for the 'illiards.

Read more at about this at http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/numbers_names.php

NB! I know that 1E3 and 1E6 and so on is not technically correct, but with only the limited ASCII characters, I can not show the correct notations.


>>Two "billion", according to the manual. As used in the U.S., a billion means 1000 million. (In many other countries, a "billion" is a million millions.)
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>Even UK uses "billion" for 1e12, not 1e9.
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>I always wanted to know, and now I just realized that we got people from pretty much any country in the world. So, my question is: is there any other country in the world (other than USA, that is) that means 1e9 (aka 1,000,000,000) when it says "billion"?