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by spiderice 1212 days ago
> 13500 million

Why word it like this instead of using 13.5 billion? Is this a common thing to do in astronomy? Or are you trying to make the claim of 13.5 billion years sounds more ridiculous? Genuine question.

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Probably because million is unambiguous. Billion sometimes refers to 10^12 rather than 10^9.