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0 pointsReason0777y ago0 comments

Billion means “1000 million” in British English, not “million million” (which is Trillion).

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Did they change it?

Yes, many decades ago. The modern “short scale” billion Is found in UK technical documents and papers beginning in the 1950s, and used in official UK statistics since 1974.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

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dhimes7y ago

Did they change it?

Reason077OP7y ago

Yes, many decades ago. The modern “short scale” billion Is found in UK technical documents and papers beginning in the 1950s, and used in official UK statistics since 1974.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

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