367,700 million Gil?

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Originally Posted by Shuon

sorry what? lol

u mean the denomination differs, like how the japanese, chinese and korean numbers move up in 10 thousands rather than thousand xD

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The long and short scales are two of several different large-number naming systems used throughout the world for integer powers of ten. The names are from the English translation of the French terms échelle longue and échelle courte. Many countries, including most in continental Europe, use the long scale whereas most English-speaking countries and Arabic-speaking countries use the short scale. In all such countries, the number names are translated into the local language, but retain a name similarity due to shared etymology.

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No, the actual word "Billion" and it's etymological equivalents have different meanings in different regions. Using the world "Billion" will have different meanings depending on your local.

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Originally Posted by BobbinT

quoted from SE latest announcement regarding RMT:



CMIIW, shouldn't that be 368 "BILLION" Gil instead? Why saying 367,700 million? lol

And theoretically, combining all frozen gill, does amount of billion's even possible? lol

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Oddly, this is actually *somewhat* closer to how the Japanese count it, so I can understand why the translator would translate "367,000 million" without thinking about it, though "367.7 billion" is a bit more natural in English. Japanese numbers generally cycle every 10,000 (5 digits), so numbers go up to 10,000, then start over so you have 10,000 10,000s (100,000,000). So in the original press release, it literally says "Total Gil Frozen: About 3667 hundred-million gil" (凍結ギル合計：約3677億ギル).

billion in the us: a thousand million

billion in the eu and latin america: a million millions

that's why 367,700 million works better internationally

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Originally Posted by Little_Ifrit

I think a billion in the US is a million million whereas in EU its a thousand million. I'm not 100% sure but I think thats the case.

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in germany we have millionen (1 million), milliarden (thousand million) and then billionen (1 million million).