>Hi Dragan,
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>AFAIK you also have european roots? In Norway, and in many other countries, an american billion is call a milliard.
Similar in German.
> 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:
I find it more logical, too.
>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.
Of course, you could write 2*10^9, for example, instead of 2e9; but the exponential notation used in computer languages is so much more compact, that in my opinion it should be introduced in schools, too. It would make calculations easier to manage.
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