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**Paul** · 03-02-2004, 23:11

Technically it is a million million in Britain - but most people now think of it as 1,000 million.

I think in accounting it is always 1,000 million (i.e. when the chancellor talks about two billion pounds, he means 2,000 million pounds).

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