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Traditional American usage (which was also adapted from French usage but at a later date), Canadian, and modern British usage assign new names for each power of one thousand (the short scale). Thus, a billion is 1000 × 1000 2 = 10 9; a trillion is 1000 × 1000 3 = 10 12; and so forth.
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.
Such lists of names for powers of ten are called daśaguṇottarra saṁjñâ. There area also analogous lists of Sanskrit names for fractional numbers, that is, powers of one tenth. The Mahayana Lalitavistara Sutra is notable for giving a very extensive such list, with terms going up to 10 421.
The interim powers of one thousand between vigintillion and centillion do not have standardized names, nor do any higher powers, but there are many ad hoc extensions in use. The highest number listed in Robert Munafo's table of such unofficial names [ 2 ] is milli-millillion, which was coined as a name for 10 to the 3,000,003rd power.
Gen X is expected to inherit $14 trillion by 2034 and $39 trillion by 2048. Put another way, of the $2.5 trillion being passed down every year, about $1 trillion is going to Gen Xers.
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ Steve Mollman December 16, 2023 at 9:01 AM
Here are a few ways to put the current level of U.S. debt, over $33 trillion, in perspective: It’s 22% higher than the U.S. gross national product as of June 30 (about $27 trillion).
Order of magnitude is a concept used to discuss the scale of numbers in relation to one another. Two numbers are "within an order of magnitude" of each other if their ratio is between 1/10 and 10. In other words, the two numbers are within about a factor of 10 of each other.