I agree with the above. We don't use more than a million in this instance, i.e. we might say "Thanks a million," but we wouldn't say "Thanks a billion." Just a colloquial thing. From a mathematical standpoint, "zero point one billion," or "zero point two billion," would rarely be said outside of perhaps writing that made comparisons with other numbers that were in the billions (i.e. 1+ billion). For example, "Company X posted a 2.2 billion dollar profit in the first quarter, and a 0.5 billion dollar loss in the second quarter." This lets the reader quickly determine the total profit without having to convert between millions and billions: 1.7 billion. Most other cases, i.e. cases not involving comparisons, would probably state the number in hundreds of millions.