"Lucas Franzen" <luc@...> wrote in message
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> Thanks for shattering the german language into pieces.
> I'll go right ahead and rewrite all dictionaries :-)
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> German:
> 10^6 Million
> 10^9 Milliarde
> 10^12 Billion
> 10^15 Billiarde
> 10^18 Trillion
> etc.
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> See the difference?
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> it changes every 10^6 not every 10^3 ...

That's how I learned it in Spanish, too, whether it's the most correct way
or not:

10^6 Millón
10^9 Mil millones (didn't check the dicctionary for a name)
10^12 Billón
10^15 Mill billones (again, didn't check the dictionary)
10^18 Trillón

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