[Wildgoose]

Just arrived to make the exact same comment.

Overstated a 1000 times, which suggests they are mistaking the new US-style billion of 1000 million for the old form of a billion (i.e. a million million).

[Svip]

I think the different 'billions' are called long and short scales.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales