Koop:
A Billion is a Thousand million…isn’t it?
Yeah i thought i was right.
- 1 million = 1,000,000 (six noughts)
- 1 billion = 1,000,000,000 (nine noughts) : add a thousand onto a million ie three more noughts
- 1 trillion= 1,000,000,000,000 (twelve noughts) add a thousand onto a billion ie three more noughts
Simon:
As we’re British, not American, and your quoting £s, that number is 1 Billion, 1 million million.
A British Trillion has another 6 0s in it.
I,m every bit as British as you pal. 1 trillion has 12 noughts. Whether they are £,s–Dollars-- Yen–or even
Deep-Fried Battered Mars Bars.
Buycrider:
Simon:
As we’re British, not American, and your quoting £s, that number is 1 Billion, 1 million million.
A British Trillion has another 6 0s in it.I,m every bit as British as you pal. 1 trillion has 12 noughts. Whether they are £,s–Dollars-- Yen–or even
Deep-Fried Battered Mars Bars.
I’m fairly old, so still think in the older, more logical, original British system 
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Comprehending large numbers:
Graham Crewe, on 24 Mar 2009 at 2:43 pm said:I think I’m right in saying (without checking on Google) that in ‘old English’ a billion used to be a million million (i.e. a trillion in new money), but that we’ve gone over to the more logical American system you mention.
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So under the original system, in £’s (British Sterling) 1Billion = 1 million million.
In $ (American) 1 billion = 1 thousand million, probably Yen too, but Mars Bars (deep fried or raw) being a British item, 1 billion would have meant 1 million million of them.
But it seems we’ve adopted the American system without anyone saying so (or I was away out of the country that day) 
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