On matters like this, it's probably Bill Gates.
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Yes, it's Bill Gates's fault!
(it really does say that, check it yourself :)
The British billion was the same as the Polish billion when I was young ...
Are you getting old Varsovian? :)
How many is a billion?In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000), while in American English it has always equated to a thousand million (i.e. 1,000,000,000).
British English has now adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a thousand million in both varieties of English.The same sort of change has taken place with the meaning of trillion. In British English, a trillion used to mean a million million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000). Nowadays, it's generally held to be equivalent to a million million (1,000,000,000,000), as it is in American English.
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