[DOC] [TLE] What happened to the British billion? When did 100,000,000 ... [PAR] The milliard is how the French call the US billion (10e9). ... good sense and logic, 
that we should return to the old British billion or one million to the power of two. [DOC] [TLE] How many is a billion? | Oxford Dictionaries [PAR] In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. ... British 
English has now adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a 
thousand .... We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins. [DOC] [TLE] Long and short scales - Wikipedia [PAR] The long and short scales are two of several large-number naming systems for 
integer powers of ten, that use the same words with different meanings: Long 
scale: Every new term greater than million is one million times larger than the 
previous term. Thus, billion means a million millions (1012), trillion means a 
million billions .... The pre-1974 former British English word billion, post-1961 
current French... [DOC] [TLE] Names of large numbers - Wikipedia [PAR] This article lists and discusses the usage and derivation of names of large 
numbers, together ... The "Traditional British" values shown are unused in 
American English and .... Some names of large numbers, such as million, billion, 
and trillion, have real referents in human experience, and are encountered in 
many contexts. [DOC] [TLE] The long and the short of the British billion / thousand million ... [PAR] Apr 19, 2014 ... In the UK billion is reserved for a one with twelve zeroes (1,000,000,000,000; 
1012)  which in the US we'd call a trillion. Dr. Evil wouldn't... [DOC] [TLE] Names for Large Numbers [PAR] Although we describe the two systems today as American or European, both 
systems are actually of French origin. The French physician and ... billion... [DOC] [TLE] A billion by any other name | San Diego Reader [PAR] Sep 2, 2004 ... Unless you've inherited gobs of cash from Lord and Lady Locknut, some distant 
British relatives, how would you know that what we call a billion... [DOC] [TLE] Billions and more! - Centrale des maths [PAR] I would like to know how you americans write the number 1 billion. ... The names 
of the British denominations correspond to the values expressed in powers of 
one million (one billion=a million ... Here in Canada we use the American system. [DOC] [TLE] Online Conversion - Large Numbers [PAR] The American and British names for numbers above a million. ... Some long scale 
countries call the billion a milliard. Some countries use neither of these two... [DOC] [TLE] ON LANGUAGE - Head Over Googol - NYTimes.com [PAR] Aug 9, 1987 ... But just in case it does not succeed, we had better all gain a passing ... Called in 
British usage ''billion.'' So the British call a trillion a billion. [DOC] [TLE] Numbers (mathematics): When I went to school, 'one billion' meant ... [PAR] Because there are long and short scales and most English speaking countries 
use the short ... What do you call 10^9, if you are insisting on using the long 
system, and ... it a billion , as it is called in the "short" system, used in the US, and 
in the UK since ... For 1,000,000, we still use million, which I imagine derives from 
a mille... [DOC] [TLE] What do the terms 'Crores' and 'Lakhs' in Indian English stand for ... [PAR] Lakh (100K) and Crore (10 million) are the traditional units of counting big 
numbers in South ... Thus, we will write 1 billion as 100 Crore, trillion as 1 Lakh 
Crore and so on. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon... 42.5k Views  View Upvotes
... [DOC] [TLE] Aluminum versus Aluminium: Where did that come from?  World's ... [PAR] Apr 8, 2009 ... ... why the Brits say Alumininium and why Americans say Aluminum. .... I dont 
think there is a point to argue the way we call the billion trillion... [DOC]

Question: What the British call a billion, we call this
Answer: Trillion