We used to have the Milliard as well. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/milliard
Lennie -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Rupert Reynolds Sent: 02 April 2023 04:05 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Currency format suggestions, please? Fair point. When I was at school we used "billion" as long scale 10^12, but by the time I worked for Nasty Wetmonster Bank it was short scale. I tend to just say "thousand million" :-) Roops On Sun, 2 Apr 2023, 00:34 Gary Weinhold, <weinh...@dkl.com> wrote: > This is been very interesting, but no one has mentioned billions and > trillions. When I was a young, I learned that the UK million was the > same as US, but billion was a million millions (not just a thousand > million) and a trillion was a million billions and so on. i guess It > makes a difference when you're talking about national debt (cue Senator > Everett Dirksen). > Anyway, UK switched to the thousands- based 'illions in 1974. > > Gary Weinhold > Senior Application Architect > DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization > Phone:+1.613.523.5500 x216 > Email: weinh...@dkl.com > Visit us online at www.DKL.com > E-mail Notification: The information contained in this email and any > attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other > intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, > and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and > delete the original message from your mail system. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
