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"$1,000,000,000 in 2012 is worth $1,292,703,642.08 today"

Which is more than $1bn and therefore qualifies as "billions".

I can't believe your ego couldn't take that. $109 isn't hundreds of dollars.

and $900,000,000 today will someday be worth over $1B, but we don't call them billions.