How do you prenounce this number.

Wow I really didn't expect this thread to have so much confusion. It's fairly obvious these days that the number is into the billions. No one should be using million million as a billion - reading pretty much any news item would throw you off - "the population of China breaks 1.5 billion!" so you'd take that to be 3 orders of magnitude more than it should be :D. "Citigroup posts loss of $12bn". Well, they've just lost a lot more than they expected.
 
I vaguely read the previous posts in this thread, but its quicker to just give my 2p than to see if im duplicating a previous poster :D

1000, 000, 000 is an american billion (a thousand million)
1000, 000, 000, 000 is an old fashioned english billion (a million million)

no one seems to take a billion as the english one anymore, me included. Think Gigabyte (1000 megabytes = 1000 million bytes , no one get pedantic now and confuse the matter with base 2 :D) and a billionaire (rich *******).

9, 999, 999 ,999 [stick in ya commas]
nine billion, nine hundred and ninety nine million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine

taking the old english definition of a billion:

nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine

i think
 
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