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Subject:Re: how much is a billion From:"Marianne Bowen" <MBOWEN -at- doleta -dot- gov> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:24:22 -0400
<<Quite so. If I remember correctly from something I read long ago, the
Germans do it like the Americans: a billion is a thousand million. The
Belgians use milliards, or they did when I lived there about 10 years ago,
while across the Channel the BBC spelled it out. Thus, a BBC news presenter
would say "one thousand five hundred million dollars" where an American
would call it 1.5 billion.>>
Not quite. Germany uses 1 Milliarde for a thousand million, 1 Billiarde for a thousand milliarden. It confused me to no end when I first moved here, and it still confuses me. :)
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