why do americans call a thousand million a billion when a billion is supposed to be 12 zeros? its supposed to be this way:
10 = ten
100= hundred
1,000 = thousand
10,000 = ten thousand
100,000 = hundred thousand
1,000,000 = million
10,000,000 = ten million
100,000,000 = hundred million
1,000,000,000 = thousand million (not a billion)
10,000,000,000 = ten thousand million
100,000,000,000 = hundred thousand million
1,000,000,000,000 = a BILLION (because you cant say a million million, just like you cant say a thousand thousand, you say a million instead.)
btw a trillion is supposed to be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.
do they call it a billion just so thay can call people who own over a thousand million dollars "billionaires"?
2006-09-09
06:08:31
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