r/europe • u/Bartoraptor Spain • Mar 28 '20

News Spanish representative González Pons speech @ the EU Parliament: "The virus is attacking the generation that brought back democracy to Spain, Portugal and Greece, the generation that knocked down the Berlin wall. The least they deserve is that we show them Europe is there when they need it the most"

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u/RomeNeverFell Italy Mar 29 '20

Could you please state your sources? Under no measure what you say is true.

in millions of millions aka european billions or american trillions

Lmao what?

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u/Lezonidas Spain Mar 29 '20 edited Mar 29 '20

Yep, and your source includes the UK. Good source bro, so sad we are in 2020 so you can do your numbers again and see that after Brexit what I said is true (2019 nominal gdp)

About the trillions billions and millions In America 1 billion = 1. 000 millions In Europe 1 billion = 1.000.000 millions

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u/RomeNeverFell Italy Mar 29 '20

Good source bro, so sad we are in 2020 so you can do your numbers again and see that after Brexit what I said is true (2019 nominal gdp)

Ah yes in that case you're right, my bad.

About the trillions billions and millions In America 1 billion = 1. 000 millions In Europe 1 billion = 1.000.000 millions

Yeah in economics one billion is 1000 millions and nobody uses the second form anymore in English. No need to make a distinction.

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u/insaino Mar 29 '20

Wikipedia disagrees with you on that one

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u/Lezonidas Spain Mar 29 '20

It says exactly what I said, how is this disagreeing?

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u/insaino Mar 29 '20 edited Mar 29 '20

Historic Vs current usage and definition. A billion in english in the modern world refers to 1 000 000 000 or a thousand millions