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[–] gealb@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (8 children)

In Hungary we don't even have a separate name for 11 and 12, just 10 + 1 and 10 + 2. But at least we messed up the billions, it's called 'milliárd' and the trillion is 'billió'. We were so close to making it perfect.

[–] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Italy joins the club of messing up the billions 🙌

For us a billion is "un miliardo" and a trillion is "un bilione"

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.de 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think that's fairly normal in Europe, isn't it? In Germany we have Million, Milliarde, Billion, Billiarde instead of million, billion, trillion and so on, too.

[–] Gamey@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Yea, that shit confused me so damn many times before!

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