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The cardinal number represented by a
1 followed by nine zeros (1,000,000,000),
equivalent to a thousand million. In Britain,
this number was formerly known as a milliard,
and a million million (1,000,000,000,000) as
a billion, but the first definition is now
internationally recognized.