Re: Billion versus German Billion

Re: Billion versus German Billion   (07/03/2008, 9:51 AM)

I don't know much about this particular subject, but this wikipedia page might be helpful:

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

"...the French word billion, the German word Billion and the Dutch word biljoen all refer to 10^12."

Further down the page, there is also this quote:

"Most countries and languages in the world use the traditional long scale, with many using a word similar to milliard to mean 10^9, and/or a word similar to billion to mean 10^12."

Germany is listed in that section. So apparently, there is still quite a bit of variation among different countries in their numerical systems!