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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

they might be in one of those weird places where a billion is a million million instead of a thousand million and got threwed off

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Every Indo-European language other than english:

10^6 = Million
10^9 = Milliarde
10^12 = Billion
10^15 = Billiarde

But the 100KK > 10M works in both systems.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah the $ prefix and millions/billions throws me off sometimes when I USA.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

is that like base 1000 math? that would get me threwed off somethin fierce