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DeificClusterfuck t1_j9za7ue wrote

Reply to comment by Aleashed in California Lottery stands behind $2 billion Powerball winner despite claim ticket was stolen by ILikeTalkn2Myself

No

1000 X 1m = 1b

Sesame Street taught me that as a kid

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QubitBob t1_j9zk99w wrote

This is correct: a billion = 1,000 million. The current Wikipedia article in English states this clearly. In current usage, one million million = trillion.

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yourbraindead t1_jaf1ifv wrote

I think he was trying to make a joke about the fact that in the longer scale that many countries use (like we in Germany) after a million comes Milliarde and then billion. So your trillion is our billion.

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