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Since 1974, the UK government has switched from using the long scale (as used in the rest of Europe) to the short scale (as used in the USA) for official statistics, so the billion is now:
(103)2+1 = 109 and so has nine zeros.
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Britain now uses the short scale billion which has 9 zeros. 1,000,000,000
There are 9 zeros in one billion
A billion is 1 followed by nine zeros 70 billion thus has 10 zeros 70,000,000,000
Seven zeros.
9 zeros