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Old 10-15-2012, 09:39 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
Originally, British English used billion for million million (and 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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