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  2. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    In many short scale countries, milliard was dropped altogether and billion was redefined down to 10 9, adjusting downwards the value of trillion and all the larger numbers. The root mil in million does not refer to the numeral, 1. The word, million, derives from the Old French, milion, from the earlier Old Italian, milione, an intensification ...

  3. Trillion - Wikipedia

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    Visualization of 1 trillion (short scale) A Rubik's cube, which has about 43 trillion (long scale) possible positions. Trillion is a number with two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 10 12 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British English.

  4. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    1 1 10 6: Million Million Million M Mega-2 1 10 9: Billion Thousand million Milliard G Giga-3 2 10 12: Trillion Billion Billion T Tera-4 2 10 15: Quadrillion Thousand billion Billiard P Peta-5 3 10 18: Quintillion Trillion Trillion E Exa-6 3 10 21: Sextillion Thousand trillion Trilliard Z Zetta-7 4 10 24: Septillion Quadrillion Quadrillion Y ...

  5. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The number of cells in the human body (estimated at 3.72 × 10 13), or 37.2 trillion/37.2 T [3] The number of bits on a computer hard disk (as of 2024, typically about 10 13, 1–2 TB), or 10 trillion/10T; The number of neuronal connections in the human brain (estimated at 10 14), or 100 trillion/100 T

  6. 12 US billionaires gained almost $1 trillion in wealth in ...

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    According to the index as of December 30, just 11 American billionaires and one billionaire family gained nearly $1 trillion in wealth. The gains were fueled by a surge in technology stocks, with ...

  7. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand". The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading. European languages that use the comma as a decimal separator may correspondingly use the period as a thousands separator.

  8. Will Palantir Technologies Be a Trillion-Dollar Stock by 2030?

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    The $1 trillion club is elite. As of this writing, only six American companies boast a market cap greater than $1 trillion: Apple , Microsoft , Nvidia , Alphabet , Amazon , and Meta Platforms .

  9. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    Ido's Kompleta Gramatiko Detaloza di la Linguo Internaciona Ido (Complete Detailed Grammar of the International Language Ido) officially states that commas are used for the decimal separator whilst full stops are used to separate thousands, millions, etc. So the number 12,345,678.90123 (in American notation), for instance, would be written 12. ...