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[โ€“] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Italy joins the club of messing up the billions ๐Ÿ™Œ

For us a billion is "un miliardo" and a trillion is "un bilione"

[โ€“] Lemmchen@feddit.de 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's fairly normal in Europe, isn't it? In Germany we have Million, Milliarde, Billion, Billiarde instead of million, billion, trillion and so on, too.

[โ€“] Gamey@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Yea, that shit confused me so damn many times before!

[โ€“] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I might be remembering this incorrectly, but a billion in Europe used to be a million million, and we would count in thousands of millions first, as opposed to a billion now being a thousand million.

I can't remember whether a trillion was a million (old) billion, or whether it was a billion billion.