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beobab on Feb 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Graphene optical lens 200 nm thick breaks the diff...

I thought it used to be: a british billion is a million million i.e. 1,000,000,000,000.

Thus a british billion is 1000 * an american billion.

Nowadays we use the american billion of 1,000,000,000.

Pretty sure we all agree that a million is a thousand thousand.

NamTaf on Feb 4, 2016 [–]

Wow I screwed up big time. I meant to say it was a million million and I have no idea why I said otehrwise. I'm going to blame tiredness. Thanks for the correction.

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