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by dhimes 2798 days ago
Did they change it?
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Reason077 2798 days ago
Yes, many decades ago. The modern “short scale” billion Is found in UK technical documents and papers beginning in the 1950s, and used in official UK statistics since 1974.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

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