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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