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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, ... Thus, a billion is 1000 × 1000 2 = 10 9; a trillion is 1000 × 1000 3 = 10 12; and so forth.

  4. 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 ...

  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. Billion - Wikipedia

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    1000 million Mark Notgeld banknote (1923) of Frankfurt am Main. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word billion was formed in the 16th century (from million and the prefix bi-, "two"), meaning the second power of a million (1,000,000 2 = 10 12). This long scale definition was similarly applied to trillion, quadrillion and so on ...

  7. Trillion-dollar companies: 10 most valuable mega-cap stocks

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    Market cap: $2.33 trillion. Stock price: $191.38. 6. Meta Platforms (META) Social media giant Meta Platforms rejoined the trillion-dollar club in January 2024, but it’s no stranger to the list ...

  8. Power of 10 - Wikipedia

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    Visualisation of powers of 10 from one to 1 trillion. In mathematics, a power of 10 is any of the integer powers of the number ten; in other words, ten multiplied by itself a certain number of times (when the power is a positive integer). By definition, the number one is a power (the zeroth power) of ten. The first few non-negative powers of ...

  9. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    For numbers above a million, there are three main systems used to form numbers in English. ... The numbers past one trillion in the short scale, in ascending powers ...