100 Billion Pounds... mwahhahahaaa

[jonnymusic]

When did a billion become a thousand million? I was always told that was American and us Brits actually used it to mean a million million.

So when the beeb tells us that Overall benefits spending runs at £109bn a year I'm pretty sure it's not saying that every single person in the country gets, on average, about £2,000,000. Or am I missing out?

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[jonnymusic]

For mathematically inclined historians, or the terminally bored:

Something the Americans and the French agree on