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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.
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 ...
A $1,000 iPhone for 1 billion people. Over 4 million “average” homes in the U.S. Almost half of American student loan debt. There are currently only 19 countries in the world with a GDP over ...
Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are all worth more than $1 trillion.
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
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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 ...