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Old 11-11-2011, 09:31 AM  
DamianJ
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Originally Posted by WarChild View Post
Maybe you don't know there is two different scales in use. Long scale and short scale. Most of the English speaking world uses the short scale where there is indeed 1,000 million in 1 billion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
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