Google Will Eat Itself

Re:Google Will Eat Itself by infruset on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:43AM (#7415258)

wait wait wait, a billion means two different things in Europe and America? I'm from Europe and I always used 1 billion to say 10^9. I hardly see how I would not have noticed figures being so different in say, news articles from America and Britain.

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Re:Google Will Eat Itself by hessenwolf on Monday March 17, 2014 @11:52AM (#7415805)

When I was growing up in Ireland, a billion was a million million in Britain and Ireland. Now, we have adopted the American thousand million. In Germany and Italy, a thousand million is a Milliard, and a billion is a trillion.

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Re:Google Will Eat Itself by rplnt on Monday March 17, 2014 @05:07PM (#7418099)

Slovak and Czech have it same as Germany/Italy.

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Re:Google Will Eat Itself by a-priori on Monday March 17, 2014 @01:01PM (#7416335)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

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