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Re:France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillio... by enqk on Thursday July 04, 2013 @02:23PM (#5991845)
I was sure milliard was billion and now you are making me doubt
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Re:France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Thousands Of Trillio... by vmarsy on Thursday July 04, 2013 @04:24PM (#5992291)
In French: 1 milliard = 10^9. And 1 million = 10^6. So bnegreve is right when he says 10^18.

A milliard is a billion.

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