Re: million

apprentice wrote:
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 

Milliards are French, and I don't know what they mean.

1 million = 1e6.
1 billion = 1e9.
1 trillion = 1e12.

Then there's the gazillion, which is very large but unspecified, a bit like one, two, three, many.

We'd be better off with kilopounds (k£), megapounds, gigapounds and terapounds.

Note the English separators are commas: 1,000,000,000,000.

Paul Burke


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