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How much is a Miliar?

1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or milliard, yard, long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. One billion can also be written as b or bn.

What is Indonesia currency called?

Indonesian rupiah
Indonesia/Currencies

What is the difference between billion and Miliar?

In the U.S. a billion is a thousand million (9 zeros), but in most other countries a billion is traditionally a million million (12 zeros, which is what Americans call a trillion). The British term for what Americans call a billion is a milliard, but that word has almost disappeared.

Why is a billion not milliard?

Apparently, 40 years ago, the British had different names for big numbers, different from ours. A “milliard” was what we now call a “billion,” or a thousand million. What they called a “billion” was a 1 with 12 zeros after it (which we call a “trillion”). So they counted differently.

Do British still use milliard?

In British English, in the past the word “billion” meant a million million. But in 1974 we officially adopted the US practice of using “billion” to mean a thousand million. The word “milliard” has since gone out of use in British English.

Is Miliar same as billion?

A “milliard” was what we now call a “billion,” or a thousand million.

What is the official name of the Indonesian military?

The official name of the Indonesian military also changed from “Angkatan Bersenjata Republik Indonesia” (ABRI) back to “Tentara Nasional Indonesia” (TNI). At the beginning of 2010, the Indonesian government sought to strengthen the TNI to achieve minimum standards of minimum strength (Minimum Essential Force, or MEF).

How many millions are there in a billion?

A billion is a number with two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both British and American English.

When did the government stop using the word billion for millions?

In 1974, Prime Minister Harold Wilson confirmed that the government would use the word billion only in its short scale meaning (one thousand million). In a written answer to Robin Maxwell-Hyslop MP, who asked whether official usage would conform to the traditional British meaning of a million million, Wilson stated: “No.

What is the difference between billion and milliard in Russian?

Thus for these languages billion is thousand times larger than the modern English billion. However, in Russian, while milliard (миллиард) is used for the short scale billion, trillion (триллион) is used for the long scale billion.