Billiarde
its still same in German
Million
Milliarde
Billion
Billiarde
Trillion
Trilliarde
Quadrillion
Quadrilliarde....
This just proves that everyone needs to work on their Fondlemelons, I mean FundamentalsView attachment 924681
Not funny per se, just s.th. you'll remember seeing from the corner of your eye, stopping you in your tracks. And losing the rack.
It just means that it costs less to be a billionaire in the US than the rest of the world.It simply means that the value of billion used to be a million million. In the 19th century the US officially changed the meaning of the word to a thousand million, which is referred to as the “short” version meaning of the word.
100k or thereabouts.So a billion was what we now call a trillion? Didn’t know that… thanks.
Wonder what they called what we now call a billion…?
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Two-handed masturbation might deserve a trophy.
Why can't wilderness have mirrors???
A friend and I recently had a discussion regarding the younger generations propensity for things such as unnatural colored hair dyes, piercings of all sorts, and that there doesn’t seem to be more than a small percentage of them that doesn’t have at least 1 tattoo, and that most of them are covered with them. Wouldn’t it be faster, and cheaper, and easier to just have a custom T shirt made that says “MOMMY AND DADDY DIDN'T LOVE ME ENOUGH, PLEASE LOOK AT ME”?