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minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoIn other words, 400 billions… he is worth more than that edit: I messed it up
minus-squarestetech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agobillion is a thousand millions, not a million millions
minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe crux of my mistake was that American english calls 1 thousand millions a billion Pretty much every other language reserves that word for a million millions https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04440/
In other words,
400 billions… he is worth more than thatedit: I messed it up
400 trillion
billion is a thousand millions, not a million millions
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Yeap, I messed it up
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The crux of my mistake was that American english calls 1 thousand millions a billion
Pretty much every other language reserves that word for a million millions
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04440/