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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by crabmusket on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:36PM (#43143503)
That's not true in common English usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by hiharryhere on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:46PM (#43143588)
You might want to reread that page.

“1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British English.”

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by crabmusket on Saturday February 22, 2025 @06:03PM (#43144199)
You're very right. I was confusing trillion and billion.
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