• gealb@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In Hungary we don’t even have a separate name for 11 and 12, just 10 + 1 and 10 + 2. But at least we messed up the billions, it’s called ‘milliárd’ and the trillion is ‘billió’. We were so close to making it perfect.

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      1 year ago

      But at least we messed up the billions

      No, you folks did it correctly. It’s everyone else who messed up: How big is a billion?

      1 million squared is a billion. 1 million cubed is a trillion. (1 million)^4 is a quadrillion. And so forth with pent-, sex-, sept-, oct-, etc. Milliard, billiard, trilliard, etc. slot in between the powers of one million.

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      1 year ago

      Italy joins the club of messing up the billions 🙌

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

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        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.

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        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.