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10-10-2016, 03:45 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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When I was growing up we were taught the long scale billion definition (a million million), though it had already become standard to use the short scale in official figures.
ETA: according to Wiki the short scale was officially adopted by the UK government in '74, when I was 2, so it must have coexisted for a few years after that
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