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blkfish92 on 07 October 2012
Barozi said:
blkfish92 said:
Barozi said:
blkfish92 said:
FrancisNobleman said:
Just to clarify to Europeans, what americans call a billion we call it one thousand million.

1, 000, 000, 000


I hope you're lying.

one milliard


One milliard=1 billion?

one European million = one American million
one milliard = one American billion
one European billion = one American trillion
one billiard = one American quadrillion

and so on...


Oh alright then 1 millard sounds much better to say than 1 thousand million, well that settles that confusion lol



           

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mysticwolf on 07 October 2012

define "active"...



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the2real4mafol on 08 October 2012

1 billion users is amazing, but I wonder how active those 1 billion are, i have Facebook but don't do status' or anything on it. I got bored of it a long time a go. I perfer twitter anyway



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outlawauron on 08 October 2012
SamuelRSmith said:
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.

I don't see how a thousand million is easier than billion. You're adding more to it, thus making it more complicated. This really isn't the point of the thread though.



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