From: utzoo!watmath!csc
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: billion
Article-I.D.: watmath.4635
Posted: Thu Feb 24 14:07:07 1983
Received: Fri Feb 25 09:09:39 1983
References: houti.215


A British (Imperial?) Billion is a Million Million (10^12) whereas an
"American" Billion is a thousand million (10^9).

Sorry about capitalizing "Billion" and "Million"...
-jan
...watmath!csc