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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.
Genocide/Famine: 55 million is an estimated upper bound for the death toll of the Great Chinese Famine. Literature: Wikipedia contains a total of around 64 million articles in 353 languages as of December 2024. War: 70 to 85 million casualties estimated as a result of World War II. Mathematics: 73,939,133 is the largest right-truncatable prime.
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.
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The long and short scales are two of several naming systems for integer powers of ten which use some of the same terms for different magnitudes. [1] [2]Some languages, particularly in East Asia and South Asia, have large number naming systems that are different from both the long and short scales, such as the Indian numbering system and the Chinese, Japanese, or Korean numerals.
million mega- (M) 1 000 000: 10 6: 6 billion giga- (G) 1 000 000 000: 10 9: 9 trillion tera- (T) 1 000 000 000 000: 10 12: 12 quadrillion peta- (P) 1 000 000 000 000 000: 10 15: 15 quintillion exa- (E) 1 000 000 000 000 000 000: 10 18: 18 sextillion zetta- (Z) 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: 10 21: 21 septillion yotta- (Y) 1 000 000 000 000 000 ...
The number of cells in the human body (estimated at 3.72 × 10 13), or 37.2 trillion [3] The number of bits on a computer hard disk (as of 2024, typically about 10 13, 1–2 TB), or 10 trillion; The number of neuronal connections in the human brain (estimated at 10 14), or 100 trillion
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 ...