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This is mind-blowing to me that I never knew this (this was mind-blowing to meta as well). I found this out while reading Neil Gaiman's Journal.
In the UK, a billion is 1,000,000,000,000 (i.e. 1012)
In the UK, a trillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (i.e. 1018)
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Oh, so that's why they're always saying "x thousand million" on the BBC news. I thought it was just an aversion to the term...
Posted by Paul | April 15, 2004 8:08 AM
Posted on April 15, 2004 08:08
I was wondering how they count the numbers between their million and a billion. That seems to be the obvious way, but it sounds so weird to my ears.
For example: 999,999,999,999 is:
999 thousand 999 million, 999 thousand and 999 dollars.
That messes with my brain.
Posted by kwc | April 15, 2004 11:08 AM
Posted on April 15, 2004 11:08
Alan and I read your blog entry and thought it had to be wrong... so we asked our non-American lab mate who indeed verified the claim, saying "It so much easier to become a billionaire in the states." Wild.
Posted by force | April 15, 2004 11:32 AM
Posted on April 15, 2004 11:32