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)