I just found about about the stupid scales. Didn't know about that before...
I was under the impression that US had simply "skipped" a step ahead.
That 10^6 = million, 10^9 = billion (should be milliard), 10^12 = trillion (should be billion), etc.
Dang US and UK for using such stupid scales :/
I say long rules and short falls short. Well, that's just my opinion anyway...
I think I am going to use numerical representations instead of alphabetical in the future... It's the only thing that's standardized.