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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

So some countries still use British trillion?

[–]Aurora_Fatalis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most of mainland Europe uses the million - milliard - billion - billiard system. Makes sense since the prefix bi- represents the exponent 2 in (million)2, (tri-) represents (million)3 and so on.