Would Scrooge exchange his money??

[Vidar Svendsen]

At 18:56 04.02.03 +0100, you wrote:
>Halsten Aastebol wrote:
>
>>The confusing one in this is "billion" which in Norwegian means 10 to the 
>>power of 12!
>>The English billion, 10 to the power of 9, is milliard in Norwegian.
>
>Isn't 10^9 called "milliard" in Britain and "billion" in America?

not anymore. 'Milliard' is a rather outdated word nowadays

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