• @shaked_coffee
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    69 months ago

    Italy joins the club of messing up the billions 🙌

    For us a billion is “un miliardo” and a trillion is “un bilione”

    • @Lemmchen@feddit.de
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      389 months ago

      I think that’s fairly normal in Europe, isn’t it? In Germany we have Million, Milliarde, Billion, Billiarde instead of million, billion, trillion and so on, too.

    • Tippon
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      59 months ago

      I might be remembering this incorrectly, but a billion in Europe used to be a million million, and we would count in thousands of millions first, as opposed to a billion now being a thousand million.

      I can’t remember whether a trillion was a million (old) billion, or whether it was a billion billion.