[I had to look up if the official definition of trillion is 10^18 or 10^24. It looks like a nice question to get a good irrelevant discussion for the coffeetime after lunch, if you can collect a few mathematicians in a Spanish speaking country.]
It was also true in most of the English speaking world except for the US until relatively recently - some people still talk about "american billions" and "english billions" (the last being 10^12)
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
[I had to look up if the official definition of trillion is 10^18 or 10^24. It looks like a nice question to get a good irrelevant discussion for the coffeetime after lunch, if you can collect a few mathematicians in a Spanish speaking country.]