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Symbiote
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Understanding British Money: What's a Quid? A Shil...
Milliard was the standard British word for 1,000,000,000 until some point in the 1970s.
simonh
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Then there was the British billion, which was a million million. The US version has taken over completely.
gerikson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
mejutoco
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Same in German.
throw0101c
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From
Numberphile
, "How big is a billion?" (2012):
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ
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