   British billion
  I heard about there being a British billion, which is actually more than the American billion. I believe the American billion is called something like a thousand million over in Britain or other parts of Europe. Is this out of style these days? 
  The british still use imperial units for money.  So there are actually 72 million pounds in a billion pounds.  CM ;  No, it is not a British Billion. That is the WORLD Billion, that America refuses to adopt... We here in the world have 1 Million Millions as a Billion. The American Billion is only 1000 Millions... You people are wasting naming conventions on small numbers! ;  I dunno, I think you people that have to say one-thou-sand-mill-ion (instead of one-bill-ion), are the ones wasting your time ;  So I guess Bill Gates would be a one thousand millionaire out of America. That sounds funny to me.   [edited by - mtw on February 2, 2004 9:38:29 PM];quote:Original post by dwarfsoft  No, it is not a British Billion. That is the WORLD Billion, that America refuses to adopt... We here in the world have 1 Million Millions as a Billion. The American Billion is only 1000 Millions... You people are wasting naming conventions on small numbers!   We''re just trying to make things better for the eventual transition over to the metric system.  Our "billion dollars" coverts directly to "megadollar."  But your "billion pounds" is "ten megapounds", or "point zero one gigapounds."CM ;quote:Original post by mtw  So I guess Bill Gates would be a one thousand millionaire out of America. That sounds funny to me. Doesn''t sound so special any more does he? ;  If you have a Webster''s dictionary lying around, try looking up the word "number".  You''ll come across a chart listing various numbers--both in the American system and the British system. ;quote:Original post by Conner McCloud  We''re just trying to make things better for the eventual transition over to the metric system.  Our "billion dollars" coverts directly to "megadollar."  But your "billion pounds" is "ten megapounds", or "point zero one gigapounds."I don''t use pounds.. I use dollars...Your Billion would be a Giga Dollar actually, and we have Tera Dollars over here ;quote:Original post by mtw  So I guess Bill Gates would be a one thousand millionaire out of America. That sounds funny to me.   [edited by - mtw on February 2, 2004 9:38:29 PM]That''s a milliard.