Re: how much is a billion

["Bob Hooker" <rlhooker -at- telocity -dot- com>]

> I can't speak for the Germans, but I believe the French sidestep the issue
> by using the word "milliard" for "billion" in the US/modern-UK sense.
>
> - Jonathan Stoppi


Quite so. If I remember correctly from something I read long ago, the
Germans do it like the Americans: a billion is a thousand million. The
Belgians use milliards, or they did when I lived there about 10 years ago,
while across the Channel the BBC spelled it out. Thus, a BBC news presenter
would say "one thousand five hundred million dollars" where an American
would call it 1.5 billion.


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