Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the comma as decimal separator?
wtf is this
And don't get me started on a dot as 1000s separator

@gigabecquerel what I hate much more is this:

UK DE
million Million
billion Milliarde
trillion Billion

@sylkeweb @gigabecquerel As far as I can see there are two valid translations for the German word "Milliarde", though one is dated.
https://www.dict.cc/?s=milliarde
milliarde | Übersetzung Englisch-Deutsch

dict.cc | Übersetzungen für 'milliarde' im Englisch-Deutsch-Wörterbuch, mit echten Sprachaufnahmen, Illustrationen, Beugungsformen, ...

@worthuelse @gigabecquerel my son never learned milliard in his British school, it’s been out of use since 1974 according to this article:
https://blog.harwardcommunications.com/2013/05/21/the-difference-between-milliard-and-billion/
Thankfully we were away of this difference in naming the numbers when we moved to Germany when he was 12.
#NamingBigNumbers #LongScale #ShortScale #Milliard
The difference between “milliard” and “billion”

In English, a “billion” is 1 000 000 000 (a thousand million). This has always been the case in US English. In British English, in the past the word “billion” meant a million million. If we wanted …

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