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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 401107, member: 39&quot;]Probably because such terms are, in many cases, language specific - what applies to English does not necessarily apply to French or German for example. Don&#039;t think there is any trend or intention here in Germany to &quot;adopt&quot; the English sense of the term. Maybe also because in scientific use (where agreeing on one standard would be more important) exponentiation is common anyway. The only reason why I addressed the different usage in German and English is that on Weimar Republic hyperinflation notes you would usually see the word &quot;Billion&quot;, not the many zeroes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The digits make it easier to understand the value in other countries but are probably much more difficult to &quot;grasp&quot; at a glance than, say, the value of that Yugoslavian word you mentioned. Interestingly, when Turkey still had the &quot;old&quot; lira, they issued coins with low numbers and (what I first thought was) the currency name &quot;bin lira&quot;. Then I learned that &quot;bin&quot; just means &quot;thousand&quot;. Duh. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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