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[–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

From memory, when I was a kid, it used to be that a billion was 10^12, but I think most of the world changed at some point to adopt the American billion of 10^9.

Edit: wiki article that discuss a little of this

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As a kid I was taught numbers like so.

    Once you had X amount of X, then it became the next one. 10 ten = 100, 100 hundred = 1000 1000 thousand = 1 million, 1 million million = billion. And so on.

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