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laserdruckervk t1_jd0epvi wrote

American Billion is German Milliarde and American Trillion is German Billion and it confuses the hell out of me

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ICanFlyLikeAFly t1_jd0kuic wrote

The problem is there is a long and short system. Even in English - but it's not used anymore.

1 milionen x1 000 = 1 milliarden 1 millionen x 1 000 000 1 billonen 1 billonen x 1 000= 1billarden 1 billonen x 1 000 000 = 1 trillionen

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