On 05/03/12 11:59, Invisible wrote:
> Required XKCD reference: http://xkcd.com/558/
> 
> To most people, "million", "billion" and "trillion" are almost
> interchangeable terms. 

In Finnish we have "miljoona" (equals "million"), "miljardi" (equals
"billion") and "biljoona" (equals "trillion", not "billion"). Now when
someone translates a news article from some USA news service that
contains billion, it gets sometimes translated as "biljoona", which is
actually 1000 times more.

Actually, checking Wikipedia, it's not just us:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers .

-- Arttu Voutilainen

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