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English speaking countries use the short scale billion, with 9 zeros: 1,000,000,000

Non-English speaking countries largely use the long scale billion, with 12 zeros: 1,000,000,000,000.

Britain used to use the long scale, but changed in 1974 to the short scale billion.

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