That’s obviously what they meant. There was probably some translation error. Just cut people some slack, everyone makes small mistakes from time to time. There’s a few (atleast 2) languages where the native word for billion starts with an m and the word for trillion starts with a b.
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Disgracefulone@discuss.online 4 weeks agoAre… you high? You know that back when I last checked in 2020ish there were 8 billion people, right? Maybe that’s what you meant
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Disgracefulone@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
Yeah that’s why I added my edit.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Oops. Yup, utter failed to put Bs! Put it down to not having had enough coffee today!
f314@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They might not be a native English speaker. In my language (Norwegian), the word for “billion” is “milliard”. I think that’s also the case in German.