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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 401306, member: 4626&quot;]Well the other languages would usually have their languages&#039; equivalent of &quot;milliard&quot; rather than &quot;billion,&quot; and regardless of the language the words for the numbers were usually derived from the same place.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numbers of that magnitude are used scientifically more than anything else, and you&#039;re right that in that case they&#039;d just use sceintific notation then which removes any ambiguity as to what number is meant.&nbsp; In the popular press the US uses short form (1000 million = 1 billion) and the UK and the rest of the English speaking world followed suit eventually.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly enough, Japanese and Korean actually count by 10,000&#039;s rather than millions when it comes to large numbers... 1 million would be rendered as 100 * 10,000 for example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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