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Billion
Nieve Started conversation Jun 6, 2001
However, if French and Spanish, billion means a million million where a thousand million is still mil million in Spanish
Billion
Mad Beef Posted Jun 18, 2001
In German the following structure exists:
1.000.000 "Millionen"
1.000.000.000 "Milliarden"
1.000.000.000.000 "Billionen"
1.000.000.000.000.000 "Billiarden"
This, by the way, makes for very confusing financial discussions in bilingual households/companies...
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