From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!peri!sbcs!debray Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: billion Article-I.D.: sbcs.211 Posted: Fri Feb 25 20:25:20 1983 Received: Sun Feb 27 01:46:32 1983 References: houti.215 an American billion = a thousand million (1 E 9), a "non-American" (English) billion = a million million (1 E 12) (as far as I can remember).