Quote Originally Posted by Neri View Post
Whoa, is this true? I mean, the word billion has different number between 2 regions? Isn't this going to be confusing in the monetary or economic market?
Billion has indeed two different meanings depending on region. And no, in practice there isn't much confusion made by it.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales for a good description of the two systems.