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  2. Trillion - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The highest numerical value banknote ever printed was a note for 1 sextillion pengő (10 21 or 1 milliard bilpengő as printed) printed in Hungary in 1946. In 2009, Zimbabwe printed a 100 trillion (10 14) Zimbabwean dollar note, which at the time of printing was worth about US$30. [13]

  4. Large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The factor is intended to make reading comprehension easier than a lengthy series of zeros. For example, 1.0 ... 10 12 = 1,000,000,000,000 = 1 trillion;

  5. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    (1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000; 1000 7; short scale: one sextillion; long scale: one thousand trillion, or one trilliard) ISO: zetta-(Z) Geo – Grains of sand: All the world's beaches combined have been estimated to hold roughly 10 21 grains of sand. [55]

  6. Googol - Wikipedia

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    The decay time for a supermassive black hole of roughly 1 galaxy-mass (10 11 solar masses) due to Hawking radiation is on the order of 10 100 years. [7] Therefore, the heat death of an expanding universe is lower-bounded to occur at least one googol years in the future. A googol is considerably smaller than a centillion. [8]

  7. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    One way to avoid confusion between the two scales is to use positional notation. For example 1,000,000,000,000 rather than 1 trillion (short scale) or 1 billion (long scale). This method becomes unwieldy for very large numbers. Combinations of the unambiguous words such as ten, hundred, thousand and million.

  8. Opinion - A quick way to cut $1 trillion in federal spending

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    However, 2020 saw a significant increase as the feds started shoveling out pandemic-relief money to the states, peaking at $1.4 trillion in 2021, then declining slightly to $1.3 trillion in 2022.

  9. Billion - Wikipedia

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    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 ...