Actually, it was a million million in english as well. It’s a thousand million in simplified (american) english, and for some reason, we just ended up kowtowing to their bullshit.
The us system of counting was generally considered easier and more reasonable and it had less quirks. The logic behind adopting it is literally the same one people use to argue the metric system is better. And it also was a fuck you to the British that no body liked at the time.
So for context, in English billion is thousand millions, but in Spanish is a million millions (so, an English trillion)
They gave using the English definition.
Actually, it was a million million in english as well. It’s a thousand million in simplified (american) english, and for some reason, we just ended up kowtowing to their bullshit.
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-61424,00.html
It was a weird false friend, but now it’s even weirder they (US) just changed the definition of a number.
The us system of counting was generally considered easier and more reasonable and it had less quirks. The logic behind adopting it is literally the same one people use to argue the metric system is better. And it also was a fuck you to the British that no body liked at the time.