WHOSE ONE [1] BILLION do you ACCEPT and should we be encouraging the Media to use metric identifiers for the $dollar
the Original "billion" was english and was 1 million x 1 million - ie 10 to the 12th power - 1,000,000,000,000
today we seem to accept the american version of 1000 x 1 million - ie 10 to the 9th power - 1,000,000,000
Personally- I would prefer a campaign to encourage all [ including the media] to make a significant change, which clears the confusion.
ie Giga dollars = $ x 10 to the power 9th power, Mega dollars = $ x10 to the power of 6, and of course Tera dollars [look it up]
Why, well as dave refers to crappy product from a certain area as 1 hung low, I get pissed with TV news [mentioning BILLION] when it has no real reference