> setting aside 1 billion Swiss francs ($1.1 million).
Billion, million, googol, whatever. For CNN and Swiss bankers it doesn't make difference. Executives assuring that everything is all calm and orderly means how many breaths it has left?
Billion, million, googol, whatever. For CNN and Swiss bankers it doesn't make difference. Executives assuring that everything is all calm and orderly means how many breaths it has left?
> Other countries use the word billion (or words cognate to it) to denote either the long scale or short scale billion. (For details, see Long and short scales § Current usage.)
> Milliard, another term for one thousand million, is extremely rare in English, but words similar to it are very common in other European languages.
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