ShakeMe: comentarios [2411124] http://www.meneame.net www.meneame.nethttp://www.meneame.nethttp://cdn.mnmstatic.net/m/SHAKEME/img/mnm/eli-rss.png Sitio colaborativo de publicación y comunicación entre blogs Fri, 15 May 2015 11:34:11 +0000 http://blog.meneame.net/ es 16874062 2411124 1 flekyboy 1 26 https://www.meneame.net/m/SHAKEME/call-for-2bn-global-antibiotic-research-fund #1 Call for $2bn global antibiotic research fund https://www.meneame.net/m/SHAKEME/call-for-2bn-global-antibiotic-research-fund/c01#c-1 Fri, 15 May 2015 11:34:11 +0000 flekyboy https://www.meneame.net/m/SHAKEME/call-for-2bn-global-antibiotic-research-fund/c01#c-1 Excellent article to practice with English billion and trillion.

In Spanish and British English, a billion will be taken as "a million of millions": 1,000,000,000,000.

However, in American English, a billion will be "a thousand millions": 1,000,000,000.

The article mentions a trillion, and here is where it gets tricky. In British will be the same as in Spanish, 1,000,000,000,000,000. Meanwhile, in American English will be just a thousand billions: 1,000,000,000,000.

Please, note how the notation for numbers in English uses a comma as separator for the thousands and a period for decimal i.e. 2,359.54 while in Spanish same amount will be expressed as 2.359,54.

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