Originally Posted by Quoth
Yes, never use Billion, because even in UK or Ireland with a local source it might be the USA usage or the older Empire usage. With all such stuff it varies according to place, culture, language, USA influence or if the "British" ruled for a long time.
Tera = Million x Million
Giga = thousand x Million
A billion might be either. Possibly a USA billiion was once called a milliard. Mostly a billion is the USA short scale in a current document, but might not be true in older non-USA documents.
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