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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

70 million / 117 billion, Something like 0.06% of all humans

Based on the numbers my phone gave me with no research or validation.

[–] Thief_of_Crows 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Okay, not actually that interesting.

Here's something that is interesting though: In looking it up myself, I discovered that Billion and Trillion are not universal terms, and while in America 1 billion has 9 zeros, in the UK/ parts of EU, it has 12, and from there the number of zeros increases by 6 rather than 3. So 1 trillion in America has 12 zeros, but in Europe it has 18!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

UK uses the USA version for ~~million~~ billion so 9 zeroes, at least for our national statistics.

[–] Thief_of_Crows 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USA version (pretty sure also UK version) of million has 6 zeros. Billion is the first to be different

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah that was a typo. I meant billion

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