Billion

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Billion may refer to:

• The short scale billion denoting one thousand million, 10⁹, or 1,000,000,000. This is now normal usage in both British and American English.^[1]
• The former British long scale billion denoting one million million, 10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000.
• Billion (company), a Taiwanese modem manufacturer.
• Golden billion, a Russian term for the wealthy people of the developed world
• Jack Billion (born 1939), the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for governor of South Dakota
• Mr. Billion, a 1977 film by Jonathan Kaplan
• Billion laughs, an XML parser vulnerability

See also

• Billon (disambiguation)
• Milliard, another word for 1,000,000,000
• Names of large numbers

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