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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.