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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 ...
A billion is called arab (ارب), and one hundred billion/arab is called a kharab (کھرب). Lakh has entered the Swahili language as "laki" and is in common use. Formal written publications in English in India tend to use lakh/crore for Indian currency and International numbering for foreign currencies. [7]
One billion years may be called an eon in astronomy or geology. Previously in British English (but not in American English), the word "billion" referred exclusively to a million millions (1,000,000,000,000). However, this is not common anymore, and the word has been used to mean one thousand million (1,000,000,000) for several decades.
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Whilst the words billion and trillion, or variations thereof were first used by French mathematicians in the 15th century, [2] the word trillion was first used in English in the 1680s and comes from the Italian word trilione. [3] The word originally meant the third power of one million.