on 10/21/01 9:14 PM, Ken Shmidheiser at k.shmidheiser@... wrote:

> So help me out here boys (check the quadrillions):
> 
> English

[...]

> Billion

You'll need a British English version as well as an American English
version.  In American English, a billion is 1,000,000,000, but in British
English it's 1,000,000,000,000.  The English refer to the American "billion"
as a "thousand million."  Other very large amounts are similarly different.

Mark Lincoln