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Do the British always use the same number one billion to mean the same size number as Americans?
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Originally an English billion was a million million and the American billion a thousand million.
In 1975 British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey announced that the treasury would adopt the US billion thenceforth. Presuambly at the same time what was a billion became a trillion
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What time did US billion number become same exactly as british?
1964. Harold Wilson, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, made an announcement to parliament to the effect that for official purposes, the British billion would be the same as the US version.
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