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[nq:1]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[/nq]
Originally British English used "billion" to mean the second of these. However the US usage, where "billion" has the first meaning, has now almost entirely taken over. "milliard" is not in common use.
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[nq:2]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[/nq]
[nq:1]Originally British English used "billion" to mean the second of these. However the US usage, where "billion" has the first ... "milliard" is not in common use. John Hall "Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)[

[nq:1]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[/nq]
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 kilop

[nq:1]1 million =3D 1e6. 1 billion =3D 1e9. 1 trillion =3D 1e12.[/nq]
Nothing to do with *e*!
1 million =3D 10 to the power 6.
1 billion =3D 10 to the power 9.
1 trillion =3D 10 to the power 12. =20
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[nq:2]1 million = 1e6.[/nq]
[nq:1]Nothing to do with *e*! 1 million = 10 to the power 6.[/nq]
That's what it means, it's called "scientific notation" and it's not e the transcendental number but e for exponent (implicitly of 10, as it's a decimal number). To get e (=2.718..) to the power of 6 you use a superscript for the 6, or in ASCII text write it e^6.

Well, if you don't like t

[nq:2]1 million = 1e6. 1 billion = 1e9. 1 trillion = 1e12.[/nq]
[nq:1]Nothing to do with *e*! 1 million = 10 to the power 6. 1 billion = 10 to the power 9. 1 trillion = 10 to the power 12.[/nq]
Dave, just remind us: what's your degree in?

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[nq:2]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[/nq]
[nq:1]Milliards are French, and I don't know what they mean.[/nq]
No milliard is a perfectly good English world and means 1,000,000,000. Its use, and I use it, avoids the confusion between a US billion, a milliard, and a European billion, 1 million million.

[nq:2]Milliards are French, and I don't know what they mean.[/nq]
[nq:1]No milliard is a perfectly good English world and means 1,000,000,000. Its use, and I use it, avoids the confusion between a US billion, a milliard, and a European billion, 1 million million.[/nq]
What are they used for? Only for national or big companies budgets, I think.
In Italy, before the Euro, our national de

[nq:1]Originally British English used "billion" to mean the second of these. However the US usage, where "billion" has the first meaning, has now almost entirely taken over. "milliard" is not in common use.[/nq]
OED2 concerning 'billion':
F. billion, purposely formed in 16th c. to denote the second power of a million (by substituting bi- prefix2 for the initial letters), trillion and quadr

[nq:2]Nothing to do with *e*! 1 million =3D 10 to ... power 9. 1 trillion =3D 10 to the power 12.[/nq]
[nq:1]Dave, just remind us: what's your degree in?[/nq]
Computing, where we use bases 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64 regularly. I have used base 7 and other unusual bases on occasion.
2 to the power 10 is very important.Yes also base 10 occasionally.
Not stating the base is a recipe for