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  2. Billion - Wikipedia

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    Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 10 9 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in Britain ...

  3. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The factor is intended to make reading comprehension easier than a lengthy series of zeros. For example, 1.0 × 10 9 expresses one billion1 followed by nine zeros. The reciprocal, one billionth, is 1.0 × 10 −9.

  4. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    Traditional British usage assigned new names for each power of one million (the long scale): 1,000,000 = 1 million; 1,000,000 2 = 1 billion; 1,000,000 3 = 1 trillion; and so on. It was adapted from French usage, and is similar to the system that was documented or invented by Chuquet.

  5. Power of 10 - Wikipedia

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    Where a power of ten has different names in the two conventions, the long scale name is shown in parentheses. The positive 10 power related to a short scale name can be determined based on its Latin name-prefix using the following formula: 10 [(prefix-number + 1) × 3] Examples: billion = 10 [(2 + 1) × 3] = 10 9; octillion = 10 [(8 + 1) × 3 ...

  6. 1,000,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. See also: Orders of magnitude (numbers) and Long and short scales Natural number 1000000000 List of numbers Integers ← 10 0 10 1 10 2 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 10 7 10 8 10 9 Cardinal One billion (short scale) One thousand million, or one milliard (long scale) Ordinal One billionth (short ...

  7. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    The root mil in million does not refer to the numeral, 1. ... one too many zeros in the 804300 ... word similar to billion to mean 10 9, most like Arabic have kept a ...

  8. Talk:1,000,000,000 - Wikipedia

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    A Billionaire has 1,000,000,000,000 or more pounds, dollars, whatever. Therefore Billion is defined by having 12 (not 9) 0's after the 1. It seems that this definition of Billion has been replaced by an AMERICAN definition of Billion, which has only 9 0's after the 1.

  9. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    10 100: googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics; 10 googol: googolplex (1 followed by a googol of zeros) 10 googolplex: googolplexplex (1 followed by a googolplex of zeros) Combinations of numbers in most sports scores are read as in the following examples: 1–0 British English: one-nil; American English: one-nothing, one-zip, or ...