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Shatnerz
on May 1, 2024
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New findings point to an Earth-like environment on...
3/4 billion = 750 million, no?
caseyy
on May 1, 2024
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Long billion vs short billion?
williamcotton
on May 1, 2024
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Didn’t the “long billion”, aka a trillion, stop being used sometime in the early 20th century on British English, if not earlier?
b800h
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Some of our books in UK school in the 1980s listed 10^12 as a billion. That doesn't mean it wasn't officially changed in the early C20th though.
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