Billion vs Billion - What's the difference?
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A milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.
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A million million: a 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
(colloquial, in the plural, hyperbole) A very large number.
A milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.
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A million million: a 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
(colloquial, in the plural, hyperbole) A very large number.
In us modern british & australian short scale terms the difference between billion and billion
is that billion is a milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109 while billion is a milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.In british & australian long scale lang=en terms the difference between billion and billion
is that billion is a million million: a 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012 while billion is a million million: a 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.In colloquial in the plural hyperbole terms the difference between billion and billion
is that billion is a very large number while billion is a very large number.billion
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(head)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
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* (short scale) Previous': million. ' Next trillion: * (long scale) Previous': milliard. ' Next billiard: * ISO prefix: giga-Derived terms
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(head)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}