On 05/03/2012 03:07 PM, Arttu Voutilainen wrote:
> 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:

No wonder MS Word has been advising people to just avoid the word 
"billion" altogether. It's too ambiguous...

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