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Re: A billion

> P.S. - I was using the U.S. definition of "billion" (thousand million).
> 
Apropos of nothing in particular, I was just mulling over Roger Corman's lament
about skyrocketing movie budgets--in the 1950s his never approached a million
dollars, of course. "A million dollars used to be a thousand thousands," he once
said, "but not it's just a fraction of a billion."


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