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3/4, as in the fraction 3 out of 4, 75%, not 3-4

To be fair, 3/4 billion is an unusual way to write that. Much more common is 750 million, or even 0.75 billion.

3/4 billion = 750 million, no?

Long billion vs short billion?

Didn’t the “long billion”, aka a trillion, stop being used sometime in the early 20th century on British English, if not earlier?

Some of our books in UK school in the 1980s listed 10^12 as a billion. That doesn't mean it wasn't officially changed in the early C20th though.

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800 million is greater than 3/4 billion?

Maybe he misread it as 3-4 billion?

I misread it that way too. Fractions aren't commonly used for things like millions, billions, etc.