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International commerce has almost universally adopted the "short scale", in which named numbers increase by a factor of one thousand instead of one million. Short scale: one billion = one thousand million (109).

In the "long scale" terms such as "milliard" and "billiard" were used for the intermediate factors of one thousand. Long scale: one billion = one million million (1012).

Milliard is the number 1,000,000,000 or 109. That is one thousand million. It is not used in America and seldom in other forms of English.

Billion is the normal term for one thousand million in most of the English-speaking world. In many other languages a billion refers to a thousand milliard - 1,000,000,000,000 or 1012.

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Q: A German billion is 1000000000000 A U.S. billion is 1000000000 The German word for billion is Milliarde How does this calculate?
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