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SmoothCriminal said:

wfz said:

FrancisNobleman said:
Just to clarify to Europeans, what americans call a billion we call it one thousand million.

1, 000, 000, 000

The word "Billion" doesn't exist in Europe?

A European billion is what us Americans would call a trillion.

Yes, it IS very confusing. As always though, the European model actually makes more sense

I've never heard somebody use the word "billion" to mean a "million million" in the UK. Everybody always uses it in the "thousand million" sense. Sticking to the thousands makes a lot of sense, as it keeps numbers manageabe as they increase in size.