how much is a billion

Subject: how much is a billion
From: Amanda Nance <Amanda -dot- Nance -at- VITALPS -dot- COM>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:56:40 -0700

Is it true that in some non-US countries, "one billion" means
1,000,000,000,000 - what people in the US call "one trillion"? I heard that
in some places "billion" means "one million times one million," rather than
one thousand times one million.

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