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The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been...
Yes, many decades ago. The modern “short scale” billion Is found in UK technical documents and papers beginning in the 1950s, and used in official UK statistics since 1974.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
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