Originally posted by denniswrenn
6 thousand million, is the same as 6 billion
Ohhh - that largely depends on which side of the pond you're on I think <g>

from http://www.mcn.net/~jimloy/billion.html
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Number of zeros   U.S. & scientific community   Other countries 
3                 thousand                      thousand 
6                 million                       million 
9                 billion                       1000 million (1 milliard) 
12                trillion                      billion 
[snip]
[Edited by Shabble on 05-29-2000 at 01:03 AM]