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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-8 4 10 ...
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 of the Latin word, mille, a thousand. That is, a million is a big thousand, much as a great gross is a dozen gross or 12 × 144 = 1728. [7]
To compare numbers in scientific notation, say 5×10 4 and 2×10 5, compare the exponents first, ... 10 15 = 1,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 million billion = 1 quadrillion;
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.
The world’s 10 wealthiest people saw a collective increase in their fortunes in 2023 of nearly half a trillion dollars—a whopping 46% increase, or $465.6 billion. Compare that to an annual ...
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 January 2025. War: 70 to 85 million casualties estimated as a result of World War II. Mathematics: 73,939,133 is the largest right-truncatable prime.
Different cultures used different traditional numeral systems for naming large numbers.The extent of large numbers used varied in each culture. Two interesting points in using large numbers are the confusion on the term billion and milliard in many countries, and the use of zillion to denote a very large number where precision is not required.
The 493 new additions to Forbes' billionaire ranking have a combined net worth of just under $975 billion. Compare that to 2002, when there were 28 new billionaires worth a combined $39.2 billion ...