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   Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 22.11.2022 23:56   
      
     ak>> One billion in Canada Is it as in the US or as in the UK?   
      
     AH> In the US & Canada, one billion = one thousand million.   
      
     AH> In the UK & Germany, one billion is (or once was) one million   
     AH> million according to my sources.   
      
   In Russia the same, BTW. :)   
      
     AH> OTOH they seem divided as to whether or not Brits use "milliard" to   
     AH> mean one thousand million nowadays in much the same the way a lot   
     AH> of physicists from continental Europe evidently do.   
      
   We use "milliard" in Russia. American billionaires are milliarders for us.   
      
     AH> Some appear to believe the latter is no longer in technical &/or   
     AH> common use within the UK... and according to plainenglish.co.uk the   
     AH> government there has followed the American convention since 1974.   
     AH> I've noticed similar trends WRT various other things as well.   
      
   BTW, there is no word "milliard" in the British Longman dictionary.   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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