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		waits on March 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Tinder Revenue Estimate A "billion" is 10^9 in the short scale and 10^12 in the long scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Comparis...

spiznnx on March 8, 2018 [–]

It looks like the Long scale is falling into disuse in English speaking contexts from that article. I don't ever think I've ever seen the word "billion" in English refer to 1e+12 .

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