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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So for context, in English billion is thousand millions, but in Spanish is a million millions (so, an English trillion)

They gave using the English definition.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Actually, it was a million million in english as well. It's a thousand million in simplified (american) english, and for some reason, we just ended up kowtowing to their bullshit.

    https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-61424,00.html

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