Billion

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Billion may mean:

[edit] Numbers

  • 1,000,000,000 (one thousand million; 109) - used by most English-speaking countries (American and usual modern British meaning). May also be (infrequently) called a milliard.
  • 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million; 1012) - older British meaning, now uncommon in English-speaking countries, but used in many other languages (except Asian-derived languages, which have their own numbering terminology).

For the history of these two discrepant meanings, see Long and short scales.

[edit] Commerce


This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../b/i/l/Billion.html"
In other languages