In article <9e427$438cc8f6$d4ba586d$8520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, apprentice <mailpawel@xxxxx> writes:
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>How do you English people and the American solve the problem of 1.000.000.
>000/ 1.000.000.000.000?
>milliard/ billion I mean
Originally British English used "billion" to mean the second of these.
However the US usage, where "billion" has the first meaning, has now
almost entirely taken over. "milliard" is not in common use.
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John Hall
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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