What is the difference between milliard and billion?
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*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 155:
*:For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].
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.
Billion is a synonym of milliard.
As numerals the difference between milliard and billion
is that milliard is 109, a thousand times a million. (Now generally replaced by {{term|billion}}. while billion is a milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.milliard
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