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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Okay, not actually that interesting.

Here's something that is interesting though: In looking it up myself, I discovered that Billion and Trillion are not universal terms, and while in America 1 billion has 9 zeros, in the UK/ parts of EU, it has 12, and from there the number of zeros increases by 6 rather than 3. So 1 trillion in America has 12 zeros, but in Europe it has 18!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Oh wow, what a horrible thing to not have a standard. Good job, global community!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

UK uses the USA version for ~~million~~ billion so 9 zeroes, at least for our national statistics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

USA version (pretty sure also UK version) of million has 6 zeros. Billion is the first to be different

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ah that was a typo. I meant billion