An English billion is 1,000,000,000,000, whereas an American billion is 1,000,000,000. An American trillion is the same as an English billion and an English trillion is a million million million.
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In British English billion has traditionally meant a million million. The American meaning of billion (a thousand million)
If you are British, on the other hand, a billion may be 1,000,000,000,000 (a million million), following the older convention.
I believe it was around forty years ago that UK officially changed from the 10^12 billion to the 10^9 billion.Wrathamon said:I can remember a story on the news a good few years ago that the UK billion was changed to 1000 million.
Memphis said:Huh, you learn something new every day!
Chrisp7 said:Ok guys, so what is a European billion???