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Old 10-15-2012, 09:33 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by hwlester View Post
I'm not sure about current usage, but I think "billion" and "trillion" were US inventions. I've always heard them referred to as "thousand million" and "million million" respectively on British TV.
Originally, British English used billion for million million (and occasionally the European milliard for thousand million), but the US use of billion for thousand million has been used instead for many years [decades] now instead.

Edit: These are called the long and short scales.

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