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[asterroc]

I forgot that BBC does good summaries of situations that are large and I have a hard time wrapping my head around.

AIG
$7*10¹¹

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[xoder.livejournal.com]

Nitpick attack!!

700 Billion Dollars is $7*10¹¹

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Fixed. I was thinking "billion = 10^9", dur. Thankfully they're not talking about the other definition of billion either - in some languages/regions the word "billion" is apparently used for 10^12.