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(1) A billion
(1) Of course, we used to use the word milliard for ÔÇÿone thousand millionÔÇÖ.
(2) The only one of these which has gained any currency in English is milliard (for a thousand million) but it must be quite unfamiliar to most people today.
(3) The exports and imports of the world had, in 1840, a value of 28, in 1889 of 74, milliards of marks.