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		Wildgoose on Oct 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been... Just arrived to make the exact same comment. Overstated a 1000 times, which suggests they are mistaking the new US-style billion of 1000 million for the old form of a billion (i.e. a million million).

Svip on Oct 18, 2018 [–]

I think the different 'billions' are called long and short scales.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

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