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Never heard of this... Any examples?

• MandieD 22d ago
  German: 10^6 is "Million," 10^9 is "Millarde," and 10^12 is "Billion"
  • dotwaffle 22d ago
    Hence why in financial markets, a 10^9 billion is called a "yard" (from milliarde)!
• flohofwoe 22d ago
  In German, 10^9 is a 'Milliarde', and a 'Billion' is 10^12. The Wikipedia article has a nice map what countries use which convention (search for "Current Usage"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
  • ralfd 22d ago
    Brazil and Portugal being different doesnt seem stable. I guess Brazils usage will win out?
  • zem 22d ago
    "milliard" gave us this delightful little poem https://allpoetry.com/Atomyriades https://allpoetry.com/Atomyriades
• neysofu 22d ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales Specifically: > [...] giga- is always 10^9, which is 'billion' in short scale but 'milliard' in long scale.
• kelvinjps10 22d ago
  In Spanish it is that way