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by GeneralMayhem 2798 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Long_sca...

The UK is the only place in Europe where "billion" means 10^9; in Eastern European languages, there simply isn't an equivalent word, and everywhere else it means 10^12.

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An equivalent word for what? Poland is an EE language and has milion, miliard, bilion, biliard, etc.
in romanian it's like in French: million = milion, billion = miliard