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> billion is the correct word for 10^12 instead of 10^9 Is it? In Portuguese it's thousand, million, billion, trillion... (Milhar, milhão, bilhão, trilhão, ...
by cassianoleal 2mo ago
> billion is the correct word for 10^12 instead of 10^9
Is it? In Portuguese it's thousand, million, billion, trillion... (Milhar, milhão, bilhão, trilhão, ...)
- flohofwoe 2mo agoApparently it's different between Portugal and Brazil? (e.g. Portugal => long-scale, Brazil => short-scale - but that's just what ChatGPT is telling me). E.g. maybe it's more of a 'Europe-except-UK vs Americas' thing?
- cassianoleal 1mo agoTIL, I wasn't aware Portugal differed. I wonder about the other Portuguese-speaking countries. They generally align closer to Portugal and Brazil is the outlier (though it accounts for ~78% of Portuguese speakers!) so I suspect it's the case here as well.
- fallingbananna 2mo agoHere is a list of languages that use "milliard": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/milliard#Descendants https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/milliard#Descendants
- Hardwired8976 2mo agoYeah, in German for example.
- elorant 2mo agoSame in Greek. It's "ekatommyrio" with a prefix of the order of magnitude "dis" from two for billions, "tris" from three for trillions, "tetrakis" from four for quadrillions and so on.