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In German an English billion is a Milliarde, but I had to look up first what a Billion (in Englisch a trillion) really stands for, as nobody ever uses it.
Apparently British English used the word milliard for billion in the past. Does anybody know when it was replaced?
In India, when speaking English, it is called "100 crore". or less commonly, "one arab".
One hundred Indian crore (= 1 billion US) is written as 1,00,00,00,000
These expressions are still used in India, even in modern financial environments and marketing transactions, and the terms are regularly used in financial news reporting.
Here's an example headline from the Economic Times: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...w/22341208.cms
In my country, the name "billion" is not officialy used. Milyard (in Ukrainian) or milliard (in Russian) - one thousand millions and trylyon (in Ukrainian) or trillion (in Russian) - one million millions.
In English Canada, the meaning is the same as in the U.S.
In French Canada, a billion is the same as a trillion in U.S. parlance. Though it's rarely heard. People would be more likely to say "mille milliards".
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