From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!danny Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: billion Article-I.D.: alice.1533 Posted: Thu Feb 24 09:28:02 1983 Received: Fri Feb 25 03:37:47 1983 References: houti.215 US: billion = 1000 million trillion = 1000 billion etc many other countries: billion = 1,000,000 million trillion = 1,000,000 billion etc For ex., you'll hear the British refer to the population of the world as four thousand million while Americans say four billion