In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 9 Nov 2019 06:23:44 -0600, Ken
wrote:

Roscoe wrote:
* Bernie or Liz I think asked that and it got me thinking.* A billion
is a thousand thousands.*

Nope.

Does anyone really need to be a billionaire?

I think a billion is a thousand million.

In Britain until 1974 or so, a billion wass a million millions. That
might be what confused Roscoe. Government usage was changed then to
what you said, with the hope that when others use it to mean a million
million, they will be explicit about that.

In the USA some other countries it's what you said.

A thousand thousands is a
million. I hope you did not get this definition from Pocahontas.

Just a semantic question for wheich you gave a pretty good answer, and
yet you had to add something unrelated and stupid.