Billion and Milliard

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Billion noun - The number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros.

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Milliard and billion are semantically related. (British) In some cases you can use "Milliard" instead a noun "Billion". obsolete substitute

Nearby Word: bill

Milliard noun - A billion.

Usage example: in England they call one thousand million a milliard

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Billion and milliard are semantically related. You can use "Billion" instead a noun "Milliard".

Milliard: Back when the Long Scale (see billion above) was still in use, "a milliard" was a way of saying a thousand million.

Source: Useful Notes / British English
However in other countries that still use the old British/European "long scale" (no longer used in Britain since 1974), a million is 10^6, a billion is 10^12, a trillion is 10^18, and so on (using the formula 10^6n), while 10^9 is a milliard.

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