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Re:Million Times Million by belchiorb on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @08:14AM (#44509089)
Portugal uses it, but probably due to foreign influence there’s more and more people that use the short scale, which makes everything a mess
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Re:Million Times Million by tiagod on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:40AM (#44510599)
Yep it's a mess. Most newspapers and official channels just avoid the word billion altogether, just writing "mil milhões" (a thousand million).

AFAIK the exception is the finance world, where I believe B stands for the short scale for a long time, and $1B has been used in newspapers for a long time too due to globalisation of the economy.

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Re:Million Times Million by belchiorb on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:19AM (#44530469)
Isn’t “mil milhões” the proper term in the long scale? “Bilião” would be equivalent to the short-scale trillion, e.g., “NVidia vale $4 biliões”, which is equivalent to “NVidia is worth $4 trillion”.

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