Love this. Living in germany and you say 1-9 before 10-90 (82 = said as "two and eighty") and even though i'm amazing at maths i still fuck the order up so most of the times when i'm talking about numbers i do it just like that.
Living in the Netherlands, and here it's the same. I teach statistics in Dutch as a non-native speaker, so occasionally it gets weird at the board when I have to concentrate just a little too hard on writing out whatever the students called out.
million does not mean billion, it just uses a different scale, which gets even more confusing the higher you go.
Number English German
10^6 1 million 1 Million
10^9 1 billion 1 Milliard
10^12 1 trillion 1 Billion
10^15 1 quadrillion 1 Billiarde
10^16 1 quintillion 1 Trillion
edit: also, this subreddit really does not like the table format...
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u/After_Stretch_2215 4d ago
Love this. Living in germany and you say 1-9 before 10-90 (82 = said as "two and eighty") and even though i'm amazing at maths i still fuck the order up so most of the times when i'm talking about numbers i do it just like that.