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10 6: Million Million Million M Mega-2 1 10 9: Billion Thousand million Milliard G Giga-3 2 10 12: Trillion Billion Billion T Tera-4 2 10 15: Quadrillion Thousand billion Billiard P Peta-5 3 10 18: Quintillion Trillion Trillion E Exa-6 3 10 21: Sextillion Thousand trillion Trilliard Z Zetta-7 4 10 24: Septillion Quadrillion Quadrillion Y Yotta ...
For higher powers of ten, naming diverges. The Indian system uses names for every second power of ten: lakh (10 5), crore (10 7), arab (10 9), kharab (10 11), etc. In the two Western systems, long and short scales, there are names for every third power of ten. The short scale uses million (10 6), billion (10 9), trillion (10 12), etc.
Later, French arithmeticians changed the words' meanings, adopting the short scale definition whereby three zeros rather than six were added at each step, so a billion came to denote a thousand million (10 9), a trillion became a million million (10 12), and so on. This new convention was adopted in the United States in the 19th century, but ...
In standard form, it is written as 1 × 10 9. The metric prefix giga indicates 1,000,000,000 times the base unit. Its symbol is G. 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 ...
The president-elect’s 114.75 million shares were worth about $5.3 billion briefly based on those early gains, up from $3.9 billion when trading ended on Election Day. For more CNN news and ...
However, $1 million in 1970 is worth $8.3 million in today's money. The baby boomer generation lived during the 1970s and can remember when $1 million was worth a lot more.
The company reported a $10 billion net loss for the second quarter and missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly results, overshadowing strong streaming subscriber growth. The legacy media ...
This list has all global annual earnings of all time, limited to earnings of more than $40 billion in "real" (i.e. CPI adjusted) value. Note that some record earning may be caused by nonrecurring revenue, like Vodafone in 2014 (disposal of its interest in Verizon Wireless) [1] or Fannie Mae in 2013 (benefit for federal income taxes).