On 4 May 2004 at 10:31, Paul Johnson wrote: [snipped] > > To check: > > billion(US) = 1,000,000,000 (one thousand million) > > billion(ex-GB) = 1,000,000,000,000 (one million million) > > Ah, I see...the ex-GB billion is a trillion. No, the ex-GB billion is a billion. The US billion is really a thousand million (and is misnamed) Graham