Considering the subject OP is using to troll, I struggle to understand why this made you smile.
1.417 billion is still billions. Any decimal number is plural.
This is the most low-effort troll campaign I have ever witnessed.
About a third of the threads on this forum these days are 0 effort trolls.Quote:
This is the most low-effort troll campaign I have ever witnessed.
They'll ban people for posting odders in a thread about odders, but not for spamming the boards into oblivion. Logic.
Billions is a plural quantifier of billion. It means "an un-specified amount of at least a billion".Quote:
The grammar clearly states: "As of November 2019, China's population stands at 1.435 billion"
Grammatically, you use the plural quantifier when you want to express an amount in a general term, such as "thousands of intersections", "millions of troll threads on this board" or "billions of people"