N Cook wrote:
"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

snip

I realized that I misread his post, which is why I cancelled mine. He
was saying that 1 billion in the UK is (or at least used to be) 1
million million, which is correct.

--buddy