help - how do i convert....

[Surreygirl30]

help - how do i convert $7.7billion into millions?

[redcrx]

a billion dollars is a thousand million dollars.

Its different to a billion in pounds.

So from that id say its $7700 million

[Surreygirl30]

Thanks ever so much redcrx - that was the figure i came up with - just needed to check i was doing it right :-) x

[jno]

a billion used to be considered a thousand million in the USA and a million million in Britain. These days I think everyone uses the American one (possibly because there are so many more billionaires there). Anyway, redcrx is right; but I think �7.7 billion would also be �7,000 million - same for both currencies now.