"sofie" wrote in message
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Buddy:
You are correct.... math is math any where in the universe......
and a Billion = 1,000,000,000 which is exactly
the equivalent to 1000 million or 1000 x 1,000,000
.....it can not be anything else and be correct.
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"Buddy Smith" wrote in message
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N Cook wrote:
UK : USA
billion : million million ( the USA usage has now taken over generally
in
the uk of 1 billion = 1000 million)

What? I'm from the USA and I've always thought of a billion as 1000
million. I've only vaguely heard of 1 billion being 1 million million.
I don't know anyone who thinks billion is anything but 1000 million
personally.

--buddy



I've ust looked in a UK dictionary published in 1960
billion = million million except USA and France where billion = 1000 million