A BILLION

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Did you know that a billion dollars is not the same as "un billón de dólares"?

Below is the number 1 billion in English:

1,000,000,000

In Spain, we would call this one-thousand million, but in English we call it one billion.

NOTE: a British billion used to be like the Spanish billion (which makes more sense, by the way). Over the years everything started to change due to the influence of the US financial system, and the press, and magazines such as the Financial Times, adopted the American billion.

Also, remember that the commas and the decimal points are used differently in English and Spanish, which we pointed out in past Daily Vitamins:

$1,355,425,582.67

This is one billion, three hundred and fifty-five million, four hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty-seven cents.

In Spanish it would be "one thousand three hundred and fifty five million...," and it would be written like this:

$1.355.425.582,67

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