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by z3t4 2800 days ago
In Sweden there's miljon ^6, miljard ^9, biljon ^12, biljard ^15 (also means pool table) and triljon ^18. I once had to ask if "milj" meant miljon or miljard and they refused to answer and said I should look it up in a dictionary. This was a government contract.