> The vagueness of your reply in my attempt to nail down its meaning merely
> underscores the barrier to technical communication in international
audiences
> from the use of either the terms "thousand" or "million".  Americans won't
> know what a non-American really means; I'm afraid I'll never know what you
> mean...

FYI, my dictionary gives two definitions of "billion" (the American 10^9 and
the British 10^12) but only one definition for "million" (10^6) and one
definition for "thousand" (10^3). So IMHO there can be no ambiguity in
saying thousand million.

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