>> To avoid confusion?
>
> You mean "because America says so"? [Why don't *they* just change to the
> correct way?]
I don't think either way is correct or incorrect, after all it's just
assigning a word to an amount. Does it matter who changed?
>> Did you really think all those figures in the financial part of the paper
>> that say $6bn mean $6000000000000 and not $6000000000?
>
> Yes.
And you were never curious as to why you never saw any amounts between $999m
and $999999m written anywhere? Anyway, you know now :-)
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