RussellMc wrote:
>> Many years ago  I was told that 1 BILLION in Great Britian was a
>> thousand times more then 1 BILLION in th US.
>>
>> British 1BILLION  =  1,000,000,000,000
>> US 1 BILLION     =  1,000,000,000
>>     
>
> And?
> This sounds like the start of a serial joke ...  :-).
>
> However, if a question was intended:
>
> Yes,
> 1974.
> Short and Long scales.
>
>                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
>
>
>             Russell
>
>   
Apparently it is still not the case.

The reason it came to mind was this terrible oil spill we have here in 
the gulf of MEXICO.

British Petroleum promised to pay $20  BILLION to help with clean 
up.Wouldn' the platicians grag that out for years.
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