2007-02-01 20:52 (UTC)
Usually "a thousand million", although some of us still use "milliard" for 10^9. The British numbering is straight powers of a million, so billion = million^2, trillion = million^3, etc. The US system doesn't make any sense because a billion isn't two of anything (it's a thousand^2 times a thousand).

Does the Japanese system continue in factors of 10,000 agter oku, or doesn't it go that far?

(Unfortunately, due to very large amounts of US TV and reporting the US billion tends now to be used in Britain as well in most places, but there are still enough that use the real one to catch people out sometimes.)
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