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21. It was $44 billion

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #19)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 04:24 PM

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and had just replied to a DUer upthread about how the UKers used to use "thousand million" for "billion" and in this case, they might have been thinking that but forget the "thousand" part in front of the "million". Doing that was supposedly "officially" dropped years and years ago, but I still see it print articles every once in awhile.

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