From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!ddd
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Billion
Article-I.D.: brunix.1690
Posted: Thu Feb 24 13:52:44 1983
Received: Fri Feb 25 07:10:55 1983

American billion = one thousand million (= 1,000,000,000,
                                       not 1,000,000,000,000)

Non-American (English) billion = 1 million million
                                        (= 1,000,000,000,000)

---Dilip D'Souza (brunix!ddd)