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After a thought experiment I was able to determine the meaning of "billion": - It can be said that there are one thousand million (1,000,000,000) - It can be

After a thought experiment I was able to determine the meaning of "billion": - It can be said that there are one thousand million (1,000,000,000) - It can be said that there are ten thousand million (10,000,000,000) - It can be said that there are one hundred thousand million (100,000,000,000) But it cannot be said that there are a million million (1,000,000,000,000), it is said that there is a "billion". - Then, there may be a million billion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) But there cannot be a billion billion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), it is said that there is a "trillion" - Then, there may be a million trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) - There may be a billion trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) But there cannot be a trillion trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), you say "quadrillion", and so on... Translating this with the google translator has been hell, every time I typed "one thousand million" and "million x" it translated into "billion", and every time I typed "billion", it translated into "trillion".

umvi 6y ago
I don't think that's quite right one thousand thousand (1,000 * 1,000) == one million (1,000,000) one thousand million (1,000 * 1,000,000) == one billion (1,000,000,000) one thousand billion (1,000 * 1,000,000,000) == one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) Basically "one thousand ____" means "add 3 zeros" one million million (1e6 * 1e6) == one trillion (1e12) one million billion (1e6 * 1e9) == one quadrillion (1e15) Basically "one million ____" means "add 6 zeros"
- Avtomatk 6y ago
  And... where is the error in my comment? I just skipped the sequence: one thousand billion, ten thousand billion, one hundred thousand billion so as not to lengthen my comment and I did it by jumping to the millions directly. Google translator makes a creeper with the "billions", read my comment in english.

umvi 6y ago

I don't think that's quite right one thousand thousand (1,000 * 1,000) == one million (1,000,000) one thousand million (1,000 * 1,000,000) == one billion (1,000,000,000) one thousand billion (1,000 * 1,000,000,000) == one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) Basically "one thousand ____" means "add 3 zeros" one million million (1e6 * 1e6) == one trillion (1e12) one million billion (1e6 * 1e9) == one quadrillion (1e15) Basically "one million ____" means "add 6 zeros"

Avtomatk 6y ago
And... where is the error in my comment? I just skipped the sequence: one thousand billion, ten thousand billion, one hundred thousand billion so as not to lengthen my comment and I did it by jumping to the millions directly. Google translator makes a creeper with the "billions", read my comment in english.