Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
>>> Well, even if you try to be metric, the Americans have a different 
>>> idea about what constitutes a "billion"...
>>
>> Dude, you're so out of date, were you even born when the UK officially 
>> abandoned the idea that a million million is a billion?
> 
> It's new to me that it was *ever* abandoned. (Why would you do such a 
> thing?)
> 
Don't worry, at least in the Netherlands it is still used that way, so 
your claim was right, though not where you live.

> At any rate, I guess Word's "don't use that word" suggestion is the best 
> advice. [Oh, the irony of an M$ product producing good advice...]


depending on the font available?

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