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  2. 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.

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Some names of large numbers, such as million, billion, and trillion, have real referents in human experience, and are encountered in many contexts, particularly in finance and economics. At times, the names of large numbers have been forced into common usage as a result of hyperinflation.

  4. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The number of neuronal connections in the human brain (estimated at 10 14), or 100 trillion/100 T The Avogadro constant is the number of "elementary entities" (usually atoms or molecules) in one mole ; the number of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12 – approximately 6.022 × 10 23 , or 602.2 sextillion/60.2Sx.

  5. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    Other countries also use a word similar to trillion to mean 10 12, etc. Whilst a few of these countries like English use a word similar to billion to mean 10 9, most like Arabic have kept a traditionally long scale word similar to milliard for 10 9. Some examples of short scale use, and the words used for 10 9 and 10 12, are

  6. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    the long scale — designates a system of numeric names formerly used in British English, but now obsolete, in which a billion is used for a million million (and similarly, with trillion, quadrillion etc., the prefix denoting the power of a million); and a thousand million is sometimes called a milliard. This system is still used in several ...

  7. How do you pronounce ‘Nvidia’? Here’s how to say the $3 ...

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    Here’s how to say the $3 trillion company’s name, which has mythological roots. ... meaning “envy.” The name worked because the three had hopes to design such a powerful graphics chip that ...

  8. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    In Welsh, cant a mil, literally "a hundred and thousand", is used to mean a large number in a similar way to English "a hundred and one". [35] It is used in phrases such as cant a mil o bethau i'w wneud "a hundred and one things to do" i.e. "many, many things to do".

  9. Order of magnitude - Wikipedia

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    But the number names billion, trillion themselves (here with other meaning than in the first chapter) are not names of the orders of magnitudes, they are names of "magnitudes", that is the numbers 1 000 000 000 000 etc.